The Major League home-run champion, Giancarlo Stanton. A comma is needed because he’s the only ML home-run champion. (Image courtesy mlb.com) This message came over the transom the other day: Hi Ben!

How do you know whether or not to set something off in commas in a sentence? Are the added words essential (restrictive) or not (nonrestrictive)? that limits the meaning of what it modifies. And it ...

“A Bay Area real estate heiress whose family posted $35-million bail to keep her out of jail until her trial was acquitted Friday of killing the father of her children.” That’s the nut of a story ...

This week’s episode is all about another facet of comma usage: How do you know whether to set something off in commas? Are the added words essential (restrictive ...