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Ducks1160 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Comma Sutra
The more Angry Face tried not to think about the deer, the more he thought about it and the more frustrated he became.
Can I write this sentence without any commas?
Must I put a comma after "it"? I think that "the more he thought" and "the more frustrated he became" make a compound predicate, thus they should not be separated by a comma.
What say you?
Can I write this sentence without any commas?
Must I put a comma after "it"? I think that "the more he thought" and "the more frustrated he became" make a compound predicate, thus they should not be separated by a comma.
What say you?
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Ducks1160 The more Angry Face tried not to think about the deer , the more he thought about it and the more frustrated he became. Can I write this sentence without any commas? Must I put a comma after "it"?
- Ducks1160 The more Angry Face tried not to think about the deer , the more he thought about it and the more frustrated he became.
- Can I write this sentence without any commas?
- Must I put a comma after "it"?
- I think that "the more he thought" and "the more frustrated he became" make a compound predicate, thus they should not be separated by a comma.
- What say you?
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Ducks1160The more Angry Face tried not to think about the deer, the more he thought about it and the more frustrated he became.
Can I write this sentence without any commas?
Must I put a comma after "it"? I think that "the more he thought" and "the more frustrated he became" make a compound predicate, thus they should not be separa
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Dear friend,
the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them.
One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence (besides, the conjunction is present), so the comma after it is possible.
Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
the clauses within your sentence are correlative clauses of proportion (a kind of adverbial clauses), the comma is obligatory to separate them.
One dominant use of a comma is to separate closely associated clauses within a sentence (besides, the conjunction is present), so the comma after it is possible.
Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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