I was feeling uncomfortable, the rain was running down my neck.
I was feeling uncomfortable; the rain was running down my neck.
I was feeling uncomfortable. The rain was running down my neck.
Why is this not correct: She came into the house, but they will be leaving it soon.?
The two clauses are grammatically too dissimilar to be separated by a comma.
The two clauses are semantically too dissimilar to be separated by a comma.
There are two stand-alone clauses and they can never be separated by a comma.
Why is this not correct: The car seemed old, and slow.?
Because the verb seem has been elided from the second part.
Because you can't have a comma before and in any list.
Because classifiers can't be separated with commas.
In this sentence: The butcher, the man over there with the cigar, has just won a fortune. the parts separated by commas are ...
in apposition
in opposition
in a list
in a reduced relative clause
Why are there semi-colons in: She sold her car, the blue one; her husband's car, the red Jaguar; most of the furniture, the new stuff mostly; all the garden tools, including the mower and the boat.?
Because we have a two-level list.
Because we need to separate clauses.
Because serial lists need them to come before and.
Because we have a list.
What is the difference in meaning between: She went to see her mother (she said) and She went to see her mother, she said.?
In the first, she said refers only to the mother. In the second, it refers to the whole clause.
In the first, she said refers to the whole clause. In the second, it refers only to the mother.
Nothing.
The first is a misuse of brackets, the second a misuse of the comma.
What's wrong with: Can you give me the one's with the chocolate coating.?
It should be ones.
It should be ones'.
There should be a comma before the chocolate coating.
There should be a ? at the end instead of a full stop.