Not only did I sleep well last night, I got to sleep in a bit this morning. In fact, I'm still at home in my jammies.

I DO have to get dressed soon as I have a doctor's appt in 45 minutes. Luckily his office is around the corner from my house. This is with my hemotologist. Hopefully I won't need the weekly iron treatments anymore. I feel so much better than I did at the start of the year.

This is Comma King, reporting live from Spike's Bitches, where local Aimee Conat is requesting help with a paragraph, already in progress.

Knowing exactly what the company does, and familiarizing yourself with their services and products, will give you the opportunity to emphasize your skills, and illustrate how hiring you would be beneficial to them.

Mrs. Conat, all of these commas are extraneous and ungrammatical, but I will defer to your stylistic choice.

Comma King, reporting.

Comma-King, can you tell us how we can better punctuate this sentence? Should we just delete all the commas? Won't that action bring about a war?

Remember the Geneva Convention, Mrs. Conat. That sentence will read perfectly smoothly, and the commas will be home with their wives. No blood need be spilled on their behalf.

Ted, it appears we have a late rebuttal from the Eastern Time Zone. We go live to Iron-Fist Editor. Iron-Fist?

Deleting all the commas in that sentence, while grammatically acceptable, results in one long-ass sentence with no pauses whatsoever. Here at Iron-Fist Editing, LLC, we would delete *only* the last comma (found after the word "skills"). We feel it makes the sentence read much better, by throwing in a visual pause for the reader to catch a breath.

Hey Empress, You do know about the CWE and WritePoint, right? While I love the Buffista editing services, for late night, just wanna get it done, or even "gosh, which way might the teacher check it" type answers, WritePoint is fast and easy.

Deleting all the commas in that sentence, while grammatically acceptable, results in one long-ass sentence with no pauses whatsoever. Here at Iron-Fist Editing, LLC, we would delete *only* the last comma (found after the word "skills"). We feel it makes the sentence read much better, by throwing in a visual pause for the reader to catch a breath.

The sentence in question:

Knowing exactly what the company does, and familiarizing yourself with their services and products, will give you the opportunity to emphasize your skills, and illustrate how hiring you would be beneficial to them.

Here, at PCAA*, we support the original rendering, with all of the lovely commas left, as is. We would accept, with less pleasure, a second, less en-commaed approach, deleting all commas, save the second (between products and will).

*Procrastinating Comma Abusers Anonymous

No, Tep's right -- the phrase "and familiarizing yourself with their services and products" requires either two commas (one at either end), or none at all.

We would accept, with less pleasure, a second, less en-commaed approach, deleting all commas, save the second (between products and will).

Oh, my dearest Cindy. That option doesn't make grammatical sense. Why pause there and only there? For the second comma to be left in, the first comma must also be left in.

t edit Heh. Totally unsurprising comma x-post.

Why pause there and only there? For the second comma to be left in, the first comma must also be left in.

I want IronFist Editing to copyedit all of my books. And posts. And other stuff.

I, LIKE, to abuse, the comma.

I'm going to go make an anonymous hate LJ, right now.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Abuse this, Cindy!

I must concur with La Tep.