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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Comma Splice and Independent Clauses
In the following excerpt, is it acceptable to include a comma after "and"?
"In addition, he was well-practiced at acting healthy, and was able to hide his crippling pain from all except his doctors and closest relatives."
Thank you!
"In addition, he was well-practiced at acting healthy, and was able to hide his crippling pain from all except his doctors and closest relatives."
Thank you!
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Anonymous In the following excerpt, is it acceptable to include a comma after "and"? No. I've never seen that kind of punctuation.
- Anonymous In the following excerpt, is it acceptable to include a comma after "and"?
- No.
- I've never seen that kind of punctuation.
- Why would you want to set off the word and with two commas?
- I would take out the comma before and , actually.
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AnonymousIn the following excerpt, is it acceptable to include a comma after "and"?No. I've never seen that kind of punctuation. Why would you want to set off the word and with two commas?
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Definitely not.
However, you could use a comma after and to isolate a parenthetical element from the rest of the sentence.
In addition, he was well-practiced at acting healthy, and, remarkably, was able to hide his crippling pain from all except his doctors and closest relatives.
However, you could use a comma after and to isolate a parenthetical element from the rest of the sentence.
In addition, he was well-practiced at acting healthy, and, remarkably, was able to hide his crippling pain from all except his doctors and closest relatives.
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Aspara Gusyou could use a comma after and to isolate a parenthetical element from the sentence.True. Aside from that, I think we should take out the comma before and in both versions; there is no new subject in the second part.
CJ
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