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Baramen Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

But with a comma/ no comma

  

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Hi Kyung, and welcome to English Forums. When you have two independent clauses (each part could be a sentence) and you join them with and , but , or or , it's accepted style to put a comma after the first part, before the conjunction. I'm sorry.

  • Hi Kyung, and welcome to English Forums.
  • When you have two independent clauses (each part could be a sentence) and you join them with and , but , or or , it's accepted style to put a comma after the first part, before the conjunction.
  • I'm sorry.
  • I have to leave soon.
  • I'm sorry, but I have to leave soon.
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Hi Kyung, and welcome to English Forums.

When you have two independent clauses (each part could be a sentence) and you join them with and, but, or or, it's accepted style to put a comma after the first part, before the conjunction.

I'm sorry. I have to leave soon. I'm sorry, but I have to leave soon.

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