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JJDouglas Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Additional phrases that are technically independent.
Is it possible for additional phrases that are set off by commas to be independent, like in the following examples? Or are these considered as punctuation errors?
She was very intelligent, anyone could tell you that, but she lacked common sense.
Or this example from Stephen King's On Writing:
Eula-Beulah had a wonderful sense of humor, even at four I could recognize that, but it was a dangerous sense of humor.
She was very intelligent, anyone could tell you that, but she lacked common sense.
Or this example from Stephen King's On Writing:
Eula-Beulah had a wonderful sense of humor, even at four I could recognize that, but it was a dangerous sense of humor.
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Yes, that''s fine, as long as you want to write in a rather colloquial, conversational style. Some people would use brackets or dashes.
- Yes, that''s fine, as long as you want to write in a rather colloquial, conversational style.
- Some people would use brackets or dashes.
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Yes, that''s fine, as long as you want to write in a rather colloquial, conversational style.
Some people would use brackets or dashes.
Some people would use brackets or dashes.
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