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PreciousJones Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

comma

What are you going to do, if you can move to England?

SHould there be a comma?

Thanks!
  

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In conversation, would you feel like pausing there briefly? Clive

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In conversation, would you feel like pausing there briefly?

Clive
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CliveIn conversation, would you feel like pausing there briefly?Clive
I'm really not sure about this one. If I speak quickly no, but if I slow down, yes....
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PreciousJones If I speak quickly no, but if I slow down, yes....
That's one of the reasons I don't think commas and pauses are necessarily related. And I am not the only person who doesn't think they are necessarily related. You can pause whenever you want.
From a strictly punctuation point of view, I don't think a comma is necressary.
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Hi. Please help. Let me introduce to you two definitions from the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary and one defintion is for the word "insure" and the other is for the word "tenant." Thank you for your help in advance.

1) Now, one of the definitions for the word "insure" is this:

If you insure yourself against something unpleasant that might happen in
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I'm really not sure about this one. If I speak quickly no, but if I slow down, yes....

Usually, I wouldn't pause there, and so I wouldn't put a comma there. But I wouldn't say a comma is an error.

Clive
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When I relate commas to pauses, I am talking about pausing in places where it makes good sense to pause. By good sense, I mean that the pause should help the listener to understand what you are trying to communicate in your speech.

I am not talking about arbitrary pauses. It makes no sense to say eg 'Mary
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AnonymousIf you insure yourself against something unpleasant that might happen in the future, you do something to protect yourself in case it happens, or to prevent it from happening.
Do you think a comma is necessary before the conjunction "or"?
I don't think so.
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