Guide for graphics whores. Open source, so suggestions of course welcome.

[LordTheNightKnight]

twesterm said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
It's called a typo. I fixed it.

o rly?

LordTheNightKnight said:

2. Pretend "Graphics don't matter," is a literal phrase.

3. It's not having the best graphics, it's trying to have the best graphics.

6. People, who put down graphics, are philistines.

9. People, who put down graphics, are jealous.

 

 

Those are appropriate comma uses in formal writing.

Take point 2. What's in quotes is an independent clause, which means it should end with some punctuation point. Since the rest of the sentence follows, and that clause is not a question or exclaimation, it ends with a comma.

Point 3 is joining two independent clauses, but in the form of a single sentence, thus either a comma or semi-colon is used to join them.

Point 6 and 9 are complete sentences if you remove what is in between the commas, so the commas are used to set off the qualifying dependent clauses.