Commas may be the most challenging of all types of punctuation, and that’s true in both English and Spanish. Fortunately, as our new lesson on commas explains, the use of the punctuation mark is similar in the two languages. It’s easy to think of the comma as merely something used to indicate vocal pauses, but it’s much more than that — it’s used to clarify and help turn what might be a jumbled mess of words into something understandable.
Mastering the Comma originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 13:37:15.