'Comma' - 'A comma' - 'The comma'

[Tom]

Hello everybody

Further to Amy's justification of 'The comma', i.e,

Use the (punctuation mark called) comma,

( see the thread: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic11859.html#32966 )

I would like to make my concept completely clear.

1- I would like to use-------------here.

Could you please tell me if all the options given below are acceptable?

(comma- a comma - the comma)

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

Did you happen to notice in the old thread that Jamie also wrote "the period"? Your question is a valid one --- and so was my first answer.

I have a suggestion. Take a look at the two links below. Can you draw any conclusions about saying the comma vs a comma based on the Google search results? (Please ignore results where the author obviously didn't know how to spell "coma".)

Search for "the comma"

Search for "a comma"

Amy
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[Alan]

Hi Tom,

I'll throw in a suggestion to look at some material on the use of the articles I have written for the site:

ESL Lesson: Articles in English: The vs. A/an
http://www.english-test.net/lessons/16/index.html

Alan
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[Jamie (K)]