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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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00Aspiring to be an advanced knowledge economy, Beijing needs the great majority, if not all, of our students to success, academically and professionally, though individuals may attain achievement at differeent paces.02br
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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anonymous12cite 10Hi there,12br 12br 10Can anyone help me with the following sentence? Although some have given me explanations, I still don't understand why there is a comma before 'though'? Then when we should and should not put a comma before the words 'although', 'though', 'because' when they are placed to join two sentences together.

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anonymous12cite 10Hi there,12br 12br 10Can anyone help me with the following sentence?
  • Although some have given me explanations, I still don't understand why there is a comma before 'though'?
  • Then when we should and should not put a comma before the words 'although', 'though', 'because' when they are placed to join two sentences together.
  • 12br 12br 10Simon12br 12blockquote 11b 01font 00A quick answer, though not necessarily the ultimate.
  • You have several phrases, and the last needs to separated from them.
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hi there,12br
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0Hi there02br
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00So do you mean in normal situations, the comma before 'though' should not be there. Since there are several phrases in the sentence, it is better to separate them by using a comma.02br
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0 I'd say that01font00 if you don't have a02font00 01b00that02b00 before 01b00though02b00 or 01b00even though02b00, 01font00you need the comma. 02font02br
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0You should put a comma before "though," because the words following it is an independent clause (it has both a subject and a verb). However, the sentence, overall, is incorrect because it's a type of run-on called a comma splice.0-
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Aspiring to be an advanced knowledge economy, Beijing needs the great majority, if not all, of our students to succeed, academically and professionally, though individuals may attain achievement at different paces.


'Though' in this sentence isn't clearly defined because of the comma. The only time you would usually put a comma before 'though' would be at the end
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The parenthetic phrase "academically and professionally" needs to be set off from the rest of the sentence by either no commas or a pair of commas. This applies whether or not you agree that a comma should be used before an independent clause introduced by a conjunction such as "and" or "but". (In this sentence, "though" is equivalent to "but" or "yet", not "although".) See Rules 2 and 4 on this
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i can not help you with why there should or should not be a comma before the word though. what i can tell you is that sentence would do far better as 2 or 3 sentences. avoid the problem altogether. plus, success should be succeed i think. different is spelled incorrectly.
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AnonymousAspiring to be an advanced knowledge economy, Beijing needs its students to succeed both academically and professionally; however, individuals may attain achievement at different paces.
I agree this version of the sentence is more coherent than the original. However, I have one problem with it: the use of the noun "knowledge" to modify another noun, "
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