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Ceph Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Correct?

Is this correct?

Yesterday's performance was amazing, it is the best performance I have ever seen.

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Other than the comma splice (joining two complete thoughts together with a comma alone), it is fine. In these cases, only periods, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, conjuncts, and em dashes are strong enough to join complete thoughts together. You could also weed out the second performance.

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  • Other than the comma splice (joining two complete thoughts together with a comma alone), it is fine.
  • In these cases, only periods, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, conjuncts, and em dashes are strong enough to join complete thoughts together.
  • You could also weed out the second performance.
  • Yesterday's performance was amazing .
  • It is the best I have ever seen.
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Other than the comma splice (joining two complete thoughts together with a comma alone), it is fine. In these cases, only periods, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, conjuncts, and em dashes are strong enough to join complete thoughts together. You could also weed out the second performance.

Yesterday's performance was amazing. It is the best I have ever seen.
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Aspara answered well, but in my humble opinion, you should go past tense when you've just mentioned that it happened yesterday: "Yesterday's performance was amazing—it was the best performance I have ever seen.
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enoon you should go past tense when you've just mentioned that it happened yesterday: "Yesterday's performance was amazing—it was the best performance I have ever seen.
I would use 'was', but 'is' seems acceptable.

I feel that here the speaker is using 'performance' in a similar way to ththat of someone using the , in my opinion, undoubtedly accepta
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enoonAspara answered well, but in my humble opinion, you should go past tense when you've just mentioned that it happened yesterday: "Yesterday's performance was amazing—it was the best performance I have ever seen.
But then don't you have to change the end as well? I think I would.

Yesterday's performance was amazing. It was the best perform
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CalifJim enoonAspara answered well, but in my humble opinion, you should go past tense when you've just mentioned that it happened yesterday: "Yesterday's performance was amazing—it was the best performance I have ever seen.But then don't you have to change the end as well? I think I would.Yesterday's performance was amazing. It was the best performance I had ever seen.CJ
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fivejedjonI am not sure that enoon's version is impossible
Me neither, but I thought I'd ask how others felt about it.

I suppose the use of 'had' might suggest that I had/have seen an even better performance since then.

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CalifJimI suppose the use of 'had' might suggest that I had/have seen an even better performance since then.
I don't think that that is necessarily the case, though if you had seen a better performance since, 'had' would be obligatory.

I think that with both Aspara Gus's and enoon's versions we have what are, in reality, completely acceptable English
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fivejedjonif you had seen a better performance since, 'had' would be obligatory.
Yes, that seems reasonable.
fivejedjoneven if my attempts at explanation haven't convinced you, that does not necessarily mean that the utterances are unacceptable.
Oh, of course. That's a given. Understood.

Sometimes I just try to
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