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Notice the use or non-use of the comma in the following sentences:

(a) When I first visited Gandhi in 1942 at his ashram in Sevagram, he told me what happened in Champaran.

(b) He had not proceeded far when the police superintendent’s messenger overtook him.

(c) When the court reconvened, the judge said he would not deliver the judgment for several days.

Solution

Comma (,) : It is a punctuation mark (,). It indicates a slight pause or break made for the sake of clarity in a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list, etc.

The use of comma in sentences (a) and (c) points out a short interval between two actions.

2. The sentence (b) is in itself clear in its meaning straight forward. So it does not need use of any comma at all.

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