THE GENDER-FREE OPTION
A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?
COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA
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One suggestion for this chess piece: deputy sovereign

queen

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The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle

Hogwarts

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At the gov.uk site in the Past Prime Ministers section, there is only one listed as "Baroness"--this person

Margaret Thatcher

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Cinephile

movies

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On keyboards you'll find a comma by itself & as part of this other punctuation mark

a semicolon 

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We could call this "parental" computer component a primary circuit board

a motherboard

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The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo's farewell speech

the Shire

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Before his PM-ship Robert Peel organized the London police force & his nickname gave the cops this moniker

Bobbies

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Ornithophile

birds

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India has its own style of placing commas in big numbers like the number we call this (10,000,000) and Indians call crore

10 million

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You can use this 6-letter term rather than Latina or Latino

Latinx

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"It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood's depths" in an 1883 tale of this hero

Robin Hood

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A few months after quitting as prime minister in 2016, this Conservative gave up his seat in the House of Commons

(David) Cameron
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Theophile

God

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The comma as we know it came to be around 1500, not by an author, but rather by one of these putting out Greek classics

a printing press

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How about "synthetic" or "artificial" instead of this hyphenated adjective

man-made

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After this title character accepts Rochester's proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall

Jane Eyre

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With the 1938 Munich Agreement, this PM granted most of Hitler's demands & left Czechoslovakia to its fate

(Neville) Chamberlain

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Heliophile

the Sun

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The comma named for this school often precedes the words "and" & "or"

the Oxford comma

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To describe those who came before us, these "bears" are less patriarchal than these "fathers"

forebears

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Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy

apples

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A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister

(Benjamin) Disraeli

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Oenophile: Drink up!

wine

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When you have two independent clauses that are separated by a comma, it's called a comma this, and it's to be avoided. Instead, try adding a conjunction

a comma splice