Syntactic punctuation distraction Comma over-usage probably results from a tendency to pause and emphasise. How ever, such intuitive punctuation is counterproductive to the coordination of sentence core constituents, the intent of which is to cohere syntactic units of similar grammatical function, such as noun subjects Contributors: Michael Lewis Schneir (author), Wendy Kingdom (sectoin editor), Amy Whereat (section editor) Medical Writing. 2023;32(2):95. https://doi.org/10.56012/dlip9626