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Futurehuman11 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

is a comma before 'without' in this sentence required? why, why not?


The hardest part about making the cookies is attaining all of the ingredients required to do so without going to more than one store.
  

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It is not required. The logical sense in the sentence indicates that without going to more than one store is an integral part of the statement, not an addition or afterthought..

  • It is not required.
  • The logical sense in the sentence indicates that without going to more than one store is an integral part of the statement, not an addition or afterthought..
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It is not required. The logical sense in the sentence indicates that without going to more than one store is an integral part of the statement, not an addition or afterthought..
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Futurehuman11
The hardest part about making the cookies is attaining all of the ingredients required to do so without going to more than one store.
I think you mean 'obtaining'.
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Also, you don't need the part in red, in fact it's confusing:

The hardest part about making the cookies is obtaining all of the ingredients required to do so without going to more than one store.

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