Comma in the sentence
Hi
I came across this sentence in a website which contains exercises on faulty parallelism.
I have a question on the need for comma here. I think comma should not be used here.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Please give your views.
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I would say - purely personally - that this one is debatable. I won't give an authoritative answer as the rules behind its use are beyond my knowledge, but from a native-speaker's perspective, it's one I'd probably use myself but wouldn't be unhappy to see left out.
- I would say - purely personally - that this one is debatable.
- I won't give an authoritative answer as the rules behind its use are beyond my knowledge, but from a native-speaker's perspective, it's one I'd probably use myself but wouldn't be unhappy to see left out.
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I would say - purely personally - that this one is debatable. I won't give an authoritative answer as the rules behind its use are beyond my knowledge, but from a native-speaker's perspective, it's one I'd probably use myself but wouldn't be unhappy to see left out.
0The quote is attributed to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. It appears in 1886 worded and punctuated as follows:
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
There are so many variants of words and punctuation that almost any combination that is
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