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Monday, February 15, 2010

Poll Results 74

Here was the question:

Is the comma here wrong or right? "February, 2010"

Corre
ct comma 34 (28%)
Incorrect comma 84 (71%)


Congrats to 71% of you. When you have just the month and the year, no comma is necessary. If you have a day, though, you do need a comma: February 15, 2010.

3 comments:

Jenifer said...

Don't you only need one comma then?

February 15, 2010

Anonymous said...

In the solution, there should not be a comma after "February". The only comma should be between the day and year.

The Sentence Sleuth said...

Oops. All fixed.

Thanks for pointing out that I'm an idiot! :)

Lesson learned by all: don't forget to proofread yourself!