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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Does this sentence need a comma?

But I promise you I'm not!
  

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Only if you want to imitate a pause in speaking. " Otherwise, I don't see that it's necessary. But I promise you I'm not.

  • Only if you want to imitate a pause in speaking.
  • " Otherwise, I don't see that it's necessary.
  • But I promise you I'm not.
  • CJ
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Only if you want to imitate a pause in speaking.

"But I promise you, I'm not!"

Otherwise, I don't see that it's necessary.

But I promise you I'm not.

CJ
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Hi CJ,

Why did you use the word "imitate" in your sentence? According to my dictionary which I mentioned many times before (Collins Cobuild Advamced Learner's English Dictionary), i think, it means if you do that you copy the way they speak or behave. Is your sentence to be read, "Only if you want ot copy the way they speak or behave." Why use the word that mean the instance of "copying"

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