Commas... Part 1.

Today this random child informed me that I "smell like a mom."
"......for your sake I'm going to assume that was a compliment."

Then I was asked by two other children at different times if I had children.
So I guess I really did smell like one.

Anywho, I'm actually going to talk to you about something useful and constructive today.
YAY!

Commas. Fear them, respect them, use them properly.


Use a comma when you're addressing someone.

Like the above. 

"Let's eat, Grandpa." 

See?

Otherwise you're inviting people to eat your grandfather. 

Which is most likely not what you want to happen. 

This rule applies to proper names, nicknames, titles and pet names. 

"Hey there, Humperdink."

"How's it going, Grandma?"

"Don't lick the sidewalk, sweetheart."

This also goes the other way...

"Honey, don't eat the gum from under the table."

And when you're addressing someone with a proper title before their name...

"Prince Quackenbush, do you like pickles?"

You'd be really surprised how many people don't know that.
But that's perfectly acceptable.
I didn't know any of this for a long time so you're fine.

It was short, but that was lesson one in my series of Comma help. 

I'm not really sure how many times I'm going to blog about commas. 

Pretty much until I get bored with it cause you could never run out of things to say about commas.

Commas are awesome. 

I said Commas a lot in that paragraph. 

That reminds me, who's seen the PC Matic commercials? 

PC Matic commercials say the word PC Matic 13 times in 30 seconds.
That's about every other word, right?
We get the point, PC Matic, thanks.