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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Erroneous

hi,

'When I arrived they had left.'

My friend told me my sentence was grammatically erroneous because I didn't put a comma.Is this true?
  

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It is very common to put a comma after a subordinate clause in cases like yours: When I arrived , they had left. However, when the order of the clauses is reversed, no comma is usually used: They had left when I arrived . CB

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  • It is very common to put a comma after a subordinate clause in cases like yours: When I arrived , they had left.
  • However, when the order of the clauses is reversed, no comma is usually used: They had left when I arrived .
  • CB
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It is very common to put a comma after a subordinate clause in cases like yours:

When I arrived, they had left.

However, when the order of the clauses is reversed, no comma is usually used:

They had left when I arrived.

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