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TeacherJapan Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Comma?

If you can’t state your opinion in your own language, your won’t be able to do so in another language

(,) no matter how hard you study it.

Would you include a comma?

  

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teacherJapan Would you include a comma? No. It would change the meaning.

  • teacherJapan Would you include a comma?
  • No.
  • It would change the meaning.
  • What you are trying to say is that language study is futile when it comes to expressing your opinion if you don't know rhetoric.
  • The comma makes the study part an afterthought, but it is crucial to your point.
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teacherJapanWould you include a comma?

No. It would change the meaning. What you are trying to say is that language study is futile when it comes to expressing your opinion if you don't know rhetoric. The comma makes the study part an afterthought, but it is crucial to your point.

I only use mandatory commas, as a rule. That comma there was writer's

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