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English 1b3 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Comma or full stop?

a) Care of leather shoes is not just about making your shoes look good, It's also about preserving and adding to the life of your leather shoes.

b) Care of leather shoes is not just about making your shoes look good, it's also about preserving and adding to the life of your leather shoes.

Do you think we should use a comma or full stop here?

I believe it should be a comma, because I think there is an implicit 'but' before 'it's', which would make it a 'not only... but also' construction.

Thanks
  

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There is support for using the comma that way. I do it. The thought is so unified and continuous that anything else interferes with the flow of reading, and ease of reading is the whole point of punctuation.

— Enoon

  • There is support for using the comma that way.
  • I do it.
  • The thought is so unified and continuous that anything else interferes with the flow of reading, and ease of reading is the whole point of punctuation.
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There is support for using the comma that way. I do it. The thought is so unified and continuous that anything else interferes with the flow of reading, and ease of reading is the whole point of punctuation.
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