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Sb70012 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

And so do I.

You have to make major changes in your lifestyle and so do I.

Source: school exam

Hi,
I say to myself that the above sentence isn't correctly punctuated because two people are talking in the above sentence. One person usually says the brown part and the second person answers the blue part. Using the word "and" without a punctuation looks like as if one single person says the brown part and the blue part too. I say to myself that the sentence should have been written or punctuated like this:

You have to make major changes in your lifestyle. - And so do I.
or
"You have to make major changes in your lifestyle." "And so do I."
or
"You have to make major changes in your lifestyle." "And, so do I."

I am confused here. Could you please give me some guidance? How should we punctuate such statement-response sentences?

Thank you.
  

Top answer

sb70012 You have to make major changes in your lifestyle and so do I. If that were a dialogue, the response, would be very strange.

— Fivejedjon

  • sb70012 You have to make major changes in your lifestyle and so do I.
  • If that were a dialogue, the response, would be very strange.
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sb70012You have to make major changes in your lifestyle
and so do I.
If that were a dialogue, the response, would be very strange.
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It's just one person speaking.
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fivejedjon If that were a dialogue, the response, would be very strange.
Why strange? What's wrong with the response?

Thank you.
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As a dialogue, it meaans:

A: You, B, have to make major changes in your life;
B: And I, B, have to make major changes as well.

This makes no sense.
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