e sentence by commas.

"Then poor Cordelia!
And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love 's
More richer than my tongue."

However when phrases and clauses are quite parenthetic, they are
separated from the remainder of the sentence by parentheses, or by
commas and dashes. The comma and dash is more common, and generally
indicates a lesser independence of the inclosed element.

"Then Miss Gunns smiled stiffly, and thought what a pity it
was that these rich country people, who could afford to buy
such good clothes (really Miss Nancy's lace and silk were
very costly), should be brought up in utter ignorance and
vulgarity."

11. The nominative of direct address, and phrases in the nominative
absolute construction are cut off by commas.

"Goneril,
Our eldest born, speak first."

"The ridges being taken, the troops advanced a thousand
yards."

12. Appositive words and phrases are separated from the remainder of
the sentence by commas.

"In the early years of this century, such a linen weaver,
named Silas Marner, worked at his vocation, in a stone
cottage that stood among the nutty hedgerows near the
village of Raveloe, and not far from the edge of a deserted
stone-pit."

13. When words are omitted, the omission is indicated by the use of a
comma.

"Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despis'd!"

14. A comma is used before a short and informal quotation.

"In the bitterness of his wounded spirit, he said to
himself, '_She_ will cast me off too.'"

15. A comma is used to separate the independent clauses of a compound
sentence sufficiently involved to necessitate some mark of
punctuation, and yet not involved enough to require marks of different
ranks.

"But about the Christmas of the fifteenth year a second
great change came over Marner's life, and his history became
blent in a singular manner with the life of his neighbors."

6. Small groups of more closely related words are inclosed by commas
to indicate their near relation and to separate them from words they
might otherwise be thought to modify.

"In this strange world, made a hopeless riddle to him, he
might, if he had had a less intense nature, have sat
weaving, weaving--looking towards the end of his pattern, or
towar