As we shall shortly see,... «Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation»

As we shall shortly see, the comma has so many jobs as a “separator” that it tears about on the hillside of language, endlessly organising words into sensible groups and making them stay put: sorting and dividing; circling and herding; and of course darting off with a peremptory “woof” to round up any wayward subordinate clause that makes a futile bolt for semantic freedom.