Commas are good friends. They like to hang around, be useful, help out whenever they can.

They don’t like to be taken for granted.

Look at that face! Don’t abuse the poor guy. He trusts you not to put him in a bad situation.

Let’s take a gander at two independent clauses:

Commas have sweet, little tails.

I think commas are cute.

We can combine these as a compound sentence (by using a comma PLUS one of the FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So).

Commas have sweet, little tails, so I think they are cute.

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Thanks to Tanya Hart for the image.