Correct usage
a)
Is this sentence accurate? It feels like it is missing something after 'for instance'.
As written, the part in bold is a fragment, right?
Occasionally the microbe will hit the jackpot in a way that is beneficial to its survival, for instance, by making it easier for it to spread.
b)
Is the use of the semi-colon accurate here - it feels like a long sentence that is using it as a break instead of a comma?
The photographs suggest she began composing the colour alongside, and in
much the same ways as, the images she was already taking; the staging and positions of the
figures in several feigning their black-and-white counterparts.
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a) Occasionally the microbe will hit the jackpot in a way that is beneficial to its survival, for instance, by making it easier for it to spread. Is this sentence accurate? It feels like it is missing something after 'for instance'.
- a) Occasionally the microbe will hit the jackpot in a way that is beneficial to its survival, for instance, by making it easier for it to spread.
- Is this sentence accurate?
- It feels like it is missing something after 'for instance'.
- As written, the part in bold is a fragment, right?
- No, it's a standard way of includingasn example in a sentence.
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a)
Occasionally the microbe will hit the jackpot in a way that is beneficial to its survival, for instance, by making it easier for it to spread.
Is this sentence accurate? It feels like it is missing something after 'for instance'.
As written, the part in bold is a fragment, right? No, it's a standard way of includingasn example in a sentence.
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