How do I know where to put a comma?
I've probably heard about commas a thousand times in German class. But I still don't know if I have a sentence where I don't know whether a comma should go, whether it's necessary or not. If someone tells me there's a comma in the sentence, then I know where it goes, but otherwise, I don't!
Do you know this? Is there a trick or something?
With conjunctions like "but," "that," or something like that, I know a comma is needed in the sentence. But there are other sentences where a comma is needed, and I don't know!
Thanks 🙂
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The reegels of the composition and sample sets can be easily found by Google:
https://write scene.ch/blog/final-view-bei-den-kommaregel-all-13-regulation-on-preparations-
https://www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/sites/studierwerkstatt/15_comma rules.pdf
https://www.schreib.net/artikel/kommasetzung-kommaregel-6440/
https://www.uebungskoenig.de/english/comm/composition/
https://www.mentorium.de/composition/
https://studyflix.de/deutsch/komma-vor-wie-zum Example-4207
You’re right, there’s a lot of comma rules. But they’re not illogical.
1/3 of your mistakes you’ll get rid of if you don’t write meaningless commas.
You’ll get rid of the 2nd third if you do commas where you’d get air when you talk.
And then there are only 1/3 of the errors left and there are some Eselsbrücken. For example, a comma always comes before “to” but only rarely before “to”.
“The 2nd third will you go if you do commas where you’d get air when talking.” => a very unreliable and error-prone rule
The question was not about rules, but about a trick. Rules can be read in the Duden. Better than no idea and use of the random principle. In the case of better knowledge, the mental horizon of the questioners must also be taken into account. Not all like Germanistics.
Your written text doesn’t look bad. Did you do it in a spell check? This really helps enormously, even with other grammatical errors. Whenever you take a text, you can do it in there and look for your mistakes, I have learned it. Never looked at any kind of rules or something, but you get a good feeling after a time.
I recommend the Duden spell check.
LG
No, I actually don’t, but probably in the text are also comma errors – as always with me!
It helps to know the comma rules.
But I can’t remember it because it’s too many!