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4. On New Year’s Eve, Alexandra vowed to give up all sweets.

Especially chocolate.

5. If everyone would cooperate, it would be easy to solve some of

the community’s problems. For example, litter on public streets.

Punctuation Pointer

Usually, you can connect fragments beginning with such as,

including, not, especially, and in spite of with a comma.

Fragments beginning with except, unless, without, and like are
ordinarily connected without punctuation.

A fragment beginning with for example or for instance may be

attached with a comma if it immediately follows the idea it
illustrates: The chef enjoyed cooking with beans, for

example, lima beans, garbanzo beans, and kidney beans. If

the idea that the example illustrates is expressed earlier in the

sentence, place the example in a new sentence: Beans are

the specialty of the house at Rizzoli’s Restaurant. For
example, the chef makes delicious dishes from lima beans,

garbanzo beans, and kidney beans.