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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
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Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.
in her book illustrations is in parenthesis and my understanding is that we should be able to remove the content within parenthesis without impacting the meaning of the sentence. However, "them" has no reference if in her illustrations is removed. Thus we can't take above sentence as a good one....
Please lemme know whether my understanding is correct and if it can be applied to all the cases?
Thanks
in her book illustrations is in parenthesis and my understanding is that we should be able to remove the content within parenthesis without impacting the meaning of the sentence. However, "them" has no reference if in her illustrations is removed. Thus we can't take above sentence as a good one....
Please lemme know whether my understanding is correct and if it can be applied to all the cases?
Thanks
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First of all, a brief correction. This is a parenthesis: ( This is a parenthesis: ) These are parentheses: ( ) in her book illustrations is between two commas. ____________________ Also note: let me , not lemme ____________________ At any rate, I don't think that in general you can just remove words between commas without affecting the meaning of a sentence.
- First of all, a brief correction.
- This is a parenthesis: ( This is a parenthesis: ) These are parentheses: ( ) in her book illustrations is between two commas.
- ____________________ Also note: let me , not lemme ____________________ At any rate, I don't think that in general you can just remove words between commas without affecting the meaning of a sentence.
- That doesn't seem a reasonable principle.
- Commas can be used to set off a group of words for reasons other than that the words are unimportant or that they do not contribute to the meaning of the sentence.
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First of all, a brief correction.
This is a parenthesis: (
This is a parenthesis: )
These are parentheses: ( )
in her book illustrations is between two commas.
____________________
Also note:
let me, not lemme
____________________
At any rate, I don't think that in general you c
This is a parenthesis: (
This is a parenthesis: )
These are parentheses: ( )
in her book illustrations is between two commas.
____________________
Also note:
let me, not lemme
____________________
At any rate, I don't think that in general you c
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