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Adam Eerish Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Comma after introductory verb?

Is the following sentence in quotation marks correct in grammar and punctuation?

"Jogging, yesterday I decided to have a sprint."
  

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The sentence doesn't really work for me. One suggestion: When I was out jogging yesterday, I decided to sprint some of the way.

  • The sentence doesn't really work for me.
  • One suggestion: When I was out jogging yesterday, I decided to sprint some of the way.
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The sentence doesn't really work for me. One suggestion:

When I was out jogging yesterday, I decided to sprint some of the way.
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My question is still unanswered. Can someone on here actually answer the YES or NO question.
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Although the sentence may not work for some people, it IS grammatically correct, so the people for who the sentence does not work obviously have an innately fallible approach to the English language.
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As a non-grammatical point, it's nice to acknowledge that someone took the trouble to try to help you.

The answer to your question is "NO."
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Okay, well, I can see we're done here.

Can I ask the point of posting a question you "knew" the answer to?
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Can you support that claim? Else, it is pretty futile to waste your time by sharing such comments.
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BarbaraPA: I did not mean to be rude (even though I know I wasn't), I just wanted closure; I'd been tentative on the conclusion, but now I am certain, unless one can prove otherwise... Which I highly doubt.
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If you seriously expect others to thank you for providing a wrong answer and misleading them about English, then you really need to evaluate your expectations.
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Adam Eerish I did not mean to be rude (even though I know I wasn't),
Wrong again.
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As your sentence is punctuated, it is incorrect. The word "Jogging" followed by the comma modifies "I," telling what you are doing. The word "yesterday," preceded by the comma, modifies "decided," telling when you decided. So as written, the sentence says that while you're jogging now, you decided then. This impossibility arises from the clashing temporal aspects of the verb forms. ("Clashing

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