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Addyaddy Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

kindom and commas

As we know, during this period, when no hope was there, the king
ruled the kingdom bravely.

As we know, the king ruled the kingdom bravely during this period when no hope was there.

Are these sentences synonymous with each other? are they punctuated correctly?
  

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I believe they have the same meaning. I would change the order of "when no hope was there" to "when there was no hope". As we know, during this period (no comma) when there was no hope , the king ruled the kingdom bravely.

— Shawn79

  • I believe they have the same meaning.
  • I would change the order of "when no hope was there" to "when there was no hope".
  • As we know, during this period (no comma) when there was no hope , the king ruled the kingdom bravely.
  • As we know, the king ruled the kingdom bravely during this period when there was no hope .
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I believe they have the same meaning. I would change the order of "when no hope was there" to "when there was no hope".

As we know, during this period (no comma) when there was no hope, the king ruled the kingdom bravely.

As we know, the king ruled the kingdom bravely during this period when
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