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MishaP Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Can someone check these sentences, please?
Can someone check the following sentences and let me know if I need to put commas before the highlighted words, please?
1) I am keen to pursue a career in engineering and the advertised position would offer me the perfect opportunity for career progression.
2) I am proficient in MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint and I pick up new skills easily.
My reason for not including commas before "and" is because I think the reader will easily understand what the sentences will mean.
I understand there are many schools of thought, but am I actually wrong not to use commas in the examples above, or is using commas in the those cases a matter of preference?
Thank you so much!
1) I am keen to pursue a career in engineering and the advertised position would offer me the perfect opportunity for career progression.
2) I am proficient in MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint and I pick up new skills easily.
My reason for not including commas before "and" is because I think the reader will easily understand what the sentences will mean.
I understand there are many schools of thought, but am I actually wrong not to use commas in the examples above, or is using commas in the those cases a matter of preference?
Thank you so much!
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1) I am keen to pursue a career in engineering , and the advertised position would offer me the perfect opportunity for career advancement . 2) I am proficient in MS Word, Excel (,) and Powerpoint , and I pick up new skills easily. According to most style manuals, you are wrong to omit commas from between the clauses of a compound sentence (which both of those are), and in addition, if you wish to be clear, I think you should use them here anyway.
- 1) I am keen to pursue a career in engineering , and the advertised position would offer me the perfect opportunity for career advancement .
- 2) I am proficient in MS Word, Excel (,) and Powerpoint , and I pick up new skills easily.
- According to most style manuals, you are wrong to omit commas from between the clauses of a compound sentence (which both of those are), and in addition, if you wish to be clear, I think you should use them here anyway.
- Your first sentence in particular confused me when I read it comma-less.
- Commas are often a matter of preference, yes, and they also define good writers.
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1) I am keen to pursue a career in engineering, and the advertised position would offer me the perfect opportunity for career advancement.
2) I am proficient in MS Word, Excel(,) and Powerpoint, and I pick up new skills easily.
According to most style manuals, you are wrong to omit commas from between the clauses of a compound sentence (w
2) I am proficient in MS Word, Excel(,) and Powerpoint, and I pick up new skills easily.
According to most style manuals, you are wrong to omit commas from between the clauses of a compound sentence (w
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Thank you so much for correcting my sentences.
I found this sentence online:
"'An Introduction to Journalism' contains a heady mix of the historical; the practical; the legal and the ethical and I cannot recommend it highly enough to aspiring journalists".
The sentence was written by a senior editor at a well-known media organisation. Should they have put a comma after "
I found this sentence online:
"'An Introduction to Journalism' contains a heady mix of the historical; the practical; the legal and the ethical and I cannot recommend it highly enough to aspiring journalists".
The sentence was written by a senior editor at a well-known media organisation. Should they have put a comma after "
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Oh, it is really badly punctuated. The editor should be demoted.
'An Introduction to Journalism' contains a heady mix of the historical, the practical, the legal(,) and the ethical, and I cannot recommend it highly enough to aspiring journalists.
'An Introduction to Journalism' contains a heady mix of the historical, the practical, the legal(,) and the ethical, and I cannot recommend it highly enough to aspiring journalists.
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