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Huskar Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
And or comma
Hi everyone! I have questions about "and" and "comma". Please help me tell them apart because they have the same fuction in my language. Thanks in advance.
1/ She's very tall, as is her mother.
2/ She's very tall and as is her mother.
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3/ Times have changed and so have I.
4/ Times have changed, so have I.
(1) or (2) and (3) or (4) Could you tell me which one is right?
And a marginal question ^^!. Please help me to pick the right answer.
5/ Joe belived without question ____ in his daily newspaper.
Whenever he read / of what he read / about what he read / whatever he read.
1/ She's very tall, as is her mother.
2/ She's very tall and as is her mother.
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3/ Times have changed and so have I.
4/ Times have changed, so have I.
(1) or (2) and (3) or (4) Could you tell me which one is right?
And a marginal question ^^!. Please help me to pick the right answer.
5/ Joe belived without question ____ in his daily newspaper.
Whenever he read / of what he read / about what he read / whatever he read.
Top answer
1) Correct. 2) Ungrammatical. " 3) Correct.
- 1) Correct.
- 2) Ungrammatical.
- " 3) Correct.
- 4) Strictly this is a comma splice (an error in which independent clauses are joined by a comma without an appropriate conjunction being present).
- In practice this sentence would be acceptable in certain styles of writing.
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1) Correct.
2) Ungrammatical. You can say "She's very tall and so is her mother."
3) Correct.
4) Strictly this is a comma splice (an error in which independent clauses are joined by a comma without an appropriate conjunction being present). In practice this sentence would be acceptable in certain styles of writing.
In most cases in English, commas and "and" are not
2) Ungrammatical. You can say "She's very tall and so is her mother."
3) Correct.
4) Strictly this is a comma splice (an error in which independent clauses are joined by a comma without an appropriate conjunction being present). In practice this sentence would be acceptable in certain styles of writing.
In most cases in English, commas and "and" are not
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huskar(1) or (2) and (3) or (4) Could you tell me which one is right?1. Not wrong, but more natural would be She’s very tall, like her mother and the corrected version below.
2. She’s very tall, and so is her mother.
3. OK
4. This has a comma-splice error.
huskarPlease help me to pick the right answer.
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GPY1) Correct.
2) Ungrammatical. You can say "She's very tall and so is her mother."
3) Correct.
4) Strictly this is a comma splice (an error in which independent clauses are joined by a comma without an appropriate conjunction being present). In practice this sentence would be acceptable in certain styles of writing.
In most cases in English, commas and "
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