Commas and disjuncts. What are they? How should you go about them?

OUTLINE: 

1. Introduction (reviewing previous episodes): Forcing non-essential information and clauses into a sentence requires commas

2. How to punctuate personal opinions

- What are disjuncts?

- Some examples of disjuncts

- What are conjuncts, adjuncts and disjuncts?

- How to identify disjuncts: Sarah, unfortunately, has to work late.

KEYWORDS:

conjuncts, adjuncts, disjuncts, opinions, commas

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