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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Does this sentence need a comma
In more recent times, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring set forth pragmatic thinking throughout the 1960s as it parsed the problem that certain synthetic pesticides used in agriculture such as DDT were causing ecological degradation.
Where should the commas be placed in this sentence?
Where should the commas be placed in this sentence?
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Where should the commas be placed in this sentence? It's incoherent. Is it about "recent times" or "the 1960s"?
- Where should the commas be placed in this sentence?
- It's incoherent.
- Is it about "recent times" or "the 1960s"?
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AnonymousIn more recent times, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring set forth pragmatic thinking throughout the 1960s as it parsed the problem that certain synthetic pesticides used in agriculture such as DDT were causing ecological degradation.Where should the commas be placed in this sentence?It's incoherent. Is it about "recent times" or "the 1960s"?
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AnonymousIt's incoherent. Is it about "recent times" or "the 1960s"?I think that the 1960s could qualify as "more recent times" if that era is being contrasted with events of much longer ago. Even so, I don't think this is the most elegant sentence ever written
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