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The comma is an overused bit of punctuation. It is meant to separate ideas and to indicate pauses in speech. Try to avoid using a comma unless it seems necessary for the sake of clarity. A comma comes before "please" only if it begins a new clause, or to indicate an impatient, long-suffering attitude. For example we normally write " Would you please take out the trash." If we wrote " would you, please, take out the trash," it would be to indicate that impatience, as if to say Would you - and I'm asking this for the hundredth time - please take out the trash.

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