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Marketing + content consultant | former journalist + media exec | LinkedIn Top Voices | Crain's 40 Under 40 | [email protected]

Quiz time: Long, complex sentences with lots of commas makes your writing: a. More sophisticated b. Harder to read #EverybodyNeedsAnEditor If you'd like to see more of these videos, go to: https://lnkd.in/gS8sAdx9

Charlie Meyerson

Publisher at Chicago Public Square

8mo

Depends. Long sentences—with lots of diversions and parenthetical explanations—are the way we talk and think. A big, complex sentence can work well—just as can a big, complex machine. The key is assembling it correctly and with care. And that's not easy. But it can happen, especially if one bears in mind a hierarchy of punctuation marks. (So, yeah: Lots of commas and nothing else? Bad. Length? Not necessarily bad.)

Gregory Stricharchuk

A coach at Pro News Coaches, a non-profit composed of former Wall Street Journal reporters and editors. Fulbright scholar to Ukraine 2019-2020, journalist, writer-editor

7mo

What about us folks who distain commas? Word is always suggesting them. Is Word right. Pls discuss when they are not obvious but needed. Thanks Jane.

You should store all these videos on a YouTube channel or a page somewhere. Good homework for my editing class

W. Jay Banwell

Intelligence & Security Professional

7mo

Jane, I love ya ! Great advice. I got sick on Martinis several years ago; it was not fun.

Alexandra Paasch

Digital Marketing Specialist

8mo

Oh no this is for me 🙈 I love commas.

Angela Huebner

Psychotherapist, Author & Consultant at Angela J Huebner, PhD, LMFT, PC

8mo

I’m loving these lessons. :).

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Alashe Tope Solomon

Bachelor of Arts Education in English Language, TRCN, UNESCO Digital Teacher (English)

8mo

Thanks for posting

Keri Kelly

Director of Operations + Business Strategist | Empowering Professionals + Organizations to THRIVE through Communication, Clarity + Purpose | Creative, Holistic + Inclusive Leader | Learning + Development | Mental Health

8mo

Commas are like martinis…brilliant!

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