Use of Comma

In 2009 UE proofreading, there is a sentence as follows:

He said the vases were very, very small pieces but they were determined to put them back towards together.’

The errors, of course, do not happen in such an obvious place as ‘very, very’ in the sentence. But some students are curious about whether they could write it in this way.

Students can do so as long as they add a comma. In fact, we can use comma to separate words repeated for emphasis and words that may be misread if not separated. The following is another example:

The building is a long, long way from completion.