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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Do I need a comma here?

He was a hungry boy and she was more than happy to feed him a sandwich.

Do I need a comma before the 'and'? When do I generally use commas? Examples?

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" So it would read: He was a hungry boy, and she was more than happy to feed him a sandwich. Generally is a difficult definition to give when it comes to the comma. It has many, many uses, and they're not all hard-and-fast rules.

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  • " So it would read: He was a hungry boy, and she was more than happy to feed him a sandwich.
  • Generally is a difficult definition to give when it comes to the comma.
  • It has many, many uses, and they're not all hard-and-fast rules.
  • But for situations like this, a comma is used whenever two independent clauses (complete sentences with a subject and predicate) are separated by a conjunction (and, but, so, or, nor, yet).
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Yes, you would need a comma before the "and." So it would read:
He was a hungry boy, and she was more than happy to feed him a sandwich.

Generally is a difficult definition to give when it comes to the comma. It has many, many uses, and they're not all hard-and-fast rules.

But for situations like this, a comma is used whenever two independent clauses (complete sentences wi
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I forgot to include some examples. So here it goes!

Compound sentences (two independent clauses joined by a conjunction) require commas:
I watch television, but I also read a lot of books.
I'm going to go to the store, so you need to go to the bank.
I'm writing sentences that use commas, and now I'm going to stop.

Independent clauses that don't need commas:
I wa
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