comma
noun/ˈkɑmə/
Frequency rank: #9,806 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate a pause or to separate elements in a sentence.
Example sentence
She forgot to put that comma after the introductory clause, so the sentence was hard to read.
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