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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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comma usage

0Are the commas and emdashes used correctly in the below sentences? Please correct them if needed. 02br
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00It has to do with the fact that, due to immigration, travel, Internet, diaspora of all religions around the world, we are now in each other's faces, we are now each other's neighbors.02br
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00The Muslim Brotherhood, for example, which was founded in 010200-01del00one of its earliest leaders was Sayyid Qutb, one of the intellectual founders of Muslim renewal02del00-opposed, at the time, most of the movements of the modern world-01del00communism, capitalism, nationalism02del00-in the interest of establishing what they wanted to call an original Islamic 01i00ummah,02i00 informed by Quranic justice and equality.02br
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00This pattern of tactical avoidance, though it may preserve a certain atmosphere, eventually leads to evading hard questions. It leads to obscuring the involvement, the inconvenient factor, that throughout history, conflicts within and between religious traditions have been suffused with political element, and such detextualized conversations-01del00and I repeat, not all of the meetings are like this02del00-can therefore lead to a false sense of optimism about the interfaith relationships and the inevitable disillusionment that sets in when they don't seem to work out as we had hoped.02br
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0What do the cross-outs mean? Shoud we ignore them? 02br 02br 00I would say that you have WAY to many phrases set off my commas.

  • 0What do the cross-outs mean?
  • Shoud we ignore them?
  • 02br 02br 00I would say that you have WAY to many phrases set off my commas.
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0What do the cross-outs mean? Shoud we ignore them? I don't see any em-dashes.02br
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00I would say that you have WAY to many phrases set off my commas. Reading sentences with so many bits set off like that is like driving down a very bumpy road.0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10Reading sentences with so many bits set off like that is like driving down a very bumpy road.12blockquote
10 I agree. The text lacks coherence and cohesion, and is difficult to follow. 00 0-

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