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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Help with punctuation
I'm writing an essay, and I went to the writing lab at my school to get help with my grammar and punctuation, but I don't understand why the lady put commas where she did and took them out where she did. Will someone help?
One of the sentences I had was, "You must find multiple different ways to solve problems and you need everyone's opinions and thoughts to come up with the best solution."
She put a comma in after the word multiple. I don't understand why.
Next, I had two different sentences, and she took out my period and commas. It looks like a run on sentence to me now. This is the way it read before, "Along with this comes flexibility in hours that you work. If you have kids and they have to be at school at a particular time, or if they have a soccer game, etcetera."
Now it reads, "Along with this comes flexibility in hours that you work if you have kids and they have to be at school at a particular time or if they have a soccer game, etcetera."
Please help me and explain why?!
One of the sentences I had was, "You must find multiple different ways to solve problems and you need everyone's opinions and thoughts to come up with the best solution."
She put a comma in after the word multiple. I don't understand why.
Next, I had two different sentences, and she took out my period and commas. It looks like a run on sentence to me now. This is the way it read before, "Along with this comes flexibility in hours that you work. If you have kids and they have to be at school at a particular time, or if they have a soccer game, etcetera."
Now it reads, "Along with this comes flexibility in hours that you work if you have kids and they have to be at school at a particular time or if they have a soccer game, etcetera."
Please help me and explain why?!
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Anonymous You must find multiple different ways to solve problems and you need everyone's opinions and thoughts to come up with the best solution. The tests for coordinate adjectives are: Can you put "and" between them without changing the meaning or making the sentence sound odd? Can you reverse the order of them without changing the meaning or making the sentence sound odd ?
- Anonymous You must find multiple different ways to solve problems and you need everyone's opinions and thoughts to come up with the best solution.
- The tests for coordinate adjectives are: Can you put "and" between them without changing the meaning or making the sentence sound odd?
- Can you reverse the order of them without changing the meaning or making the sentence sound odd ?
- I would say that they are not coordinate adjectives and do not need a comma.
- I would put one after problems though.
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AnonymousYou must find multiple different ways to solve problems and you need everyone's opinions and thoughts to come up with the best solution.I think she considered multiple/different to be coordinate adjectives.The tests for coordinate adjectives are:
Can you put "and" between them without changing the meaning or making the sentence s
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If you are using "multiple different" to mean the same as "many different", it does not need a comma.
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You do not need to put a comma after multiple. She was incorrect in doing so.
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