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Sara Saad Posted 13 years ago
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IF there is a time order signal in the beginning of the sentence + a compound sentence should we put comma before the conjunction ?

for example : At first , he tied her with a longer rope, but Blanchette was still sad

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At first , he tied her with a longer rope but Blanchette was still sad
  

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Sara Saad IF there is a time order signal in the beginning of the sentence + a compound sentence should we put comma before the conjunction ? The sort of sentence is not relevant. You need not use a comma for short fronted adverbials: At first he tied her with a longer rope, but Blanchette was still sad.

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  • Sara Saad IF there is a time order signal in the beginning of the sentence + a compound sentence should we put comma before the conjunction ?
  • The sort of sentence is not relevant.
  • You need not use a comma for short fronted adverbials: At first he tied her with a longer rope, but Blanchette was still sad.
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Sara SaadIF there is a time order signal in the beginning of the sentence + a compound sentence should we put comma before the conjunction ?
The sort of sentence is not relevant. You need not use a comma for short fronted adverbials:

At first he tied her with a longer rope, but Blanchette was still sad.
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You should not put a space before a comma, colon or question mark. You also forgot the full stops at the end of your sentences.

I would not bother with the comma after "At first". I would write it as:

At first he tied her with a longer rope, but Blanchette was still sad.
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