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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Comma between subject and verb

Good night. I have learned a basic rule about commas: never put a comma between the subject and the verb in the beginning of a sentence.

Example: All the players of our team will achieve their goals. (Never: All the players of our team, will achieve their goals.)

But a friend of mine, who is a native English speaker, wrote a text that does not respect this rule. Are there exceptions? Or is it just poor English?

Thank you!
  

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Anonymous But a friend of mine, who is a native English speaker, wrote a text that does not respect this rule. What is the text your friend wrote?

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  • Anonymous But a friend of mine, who is a native English speaker, wrote a text that does not respect this rule.
  • What is the text your friend wrote?
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AnonymousBut a friend of mine, who is a native English speaker, wrote a text that does not respect this rule.
What is the text your friend wrote?
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AnonymousBut a friend of mine, who is a native English speaker, wrote a text that does not respect this rule.
I find that hard to believe without proof.
AnonymousAre there exceptions?
There are cases where two commas occur between the subject and verb, but that would happen by the inclusion of some parenthetical material.
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AnonymousBut a friend of mine, who is a native English speaker, wrote a text that does not respect this rule.
It's a mistake that native English speakers do sometimes make (especially, I think, when the subject is a long phrase). At the back of my mind is a recollection of seeing occasional very tricky examples where a comma, though strictly wrong, seemed the
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