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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Comma usage

if I start a sentence with "After", do I put a comma

  

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What's the sentence? Are you sure you don't mean the word afterwards . '

  • What's the sentence?
  • Are you sure you don't mean the word afterwards .
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What's the sentence?

Are you sure you don't mean the word afterwards.

Learners of English often use 'after' when it should be 'afterwards'.'

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anonymous

if I start a sentence with "After", do I put a comma

An initial subordinate clause ends with a comma. A final subordinate clause does not begin after a comma.

After we had dinner, we went to the opera.
We went to the opera after we had dinner.

An initial prepositional phrase does not need to end with a comma un

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