Do you use a comma after a prepositional phrase?
I was writing an essay for my 8th grade English class, and I start off a sentence with "for example." I didn't follow it with a comma because my English teacher from the previous year told everyone not to if it was only one prepositional phrase. On the paper I wrote, my current teacher put a comma after "for example." Which is the right thing to do?
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That is called a transitional phrase. Placing a comma after that type of phrase is the proper way to do it.
comma after for example, even before a prepositional phrase
confident, the sentence is punctuated wisely. each time the subject and predicate are interruped by potential of a prepositional word, that word is set off off by potential of commas. And that, in my opinion, is the properly suited thank you to punctuate!