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Daithy Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Is this puntuated ok?

"If they don't put their act together soon, then truly America will become a police state."

My question was going to be "How to punctuate two clause with two subordinating concoctions", but later I realized that 'then' isn't one, so I should be okay.

Thanks.
  

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Yes. 'Get' is more common than 'put' in that idiom. Clive

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Yes.

'Get' is more common than 'put' in that idiom.

Clive
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Lmao, I didn't notice it till now. I remember that I was typing 'conjunctions'; however, I had made a mistake and used the spell-check and assumed it corrected it.
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Thanks. Let's use this example as a demonstration and presume there were two subordinating conjunctions (concoctions Emotion: big smile). How woul
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"If they don't get their act together soon, when America is most vulnerable, then it will truly become a police state."

As written, I am unclear as to whether you mean this
( If they don't get their act together soon when America is most vulnerable ) ( then it w
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Thanks for the reply. My main goal isn't the find the best possible way of putting the sentence, but rather I am curious how to punctuate such sentence, should it ever come about for those conjunctions to be in one sentence.
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My point is that there are two possible meanings, as I tried to illustrate. Which one do you want to convey to the reader?
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Oh, I see, let's say the first one.
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"If they don't get their act together soon, when America is most vulnerable, then it will truly become a police state."

If they don't get their act together soon when America is most vulnerable, then it will truly become a police state.

soon when
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