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Surfer Posted 13 years ago
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Hello everyone. Would you please check the following statement for me?

Building techniques differ from one country to the other, and may even vary across the one country as vary the climate and geography.

I'm particularly interested in the following:

1. Is the punctuation Ok?
2. Do you agree on the inversion (..as vary the..)?
3. Can the underlined word (vary) be replaced with do? Should it?

Thank you.
  

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Building techniques differ from one country to the other, and may even vary across a the one (given) country as vary its climate and geography change.

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  • Building techniques differ from one country to the other, and may even vary across a the one (given) country as vary its climate and geography change.
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Building techniques differ from one country to the other, and may even vary across a the one (given) country as vary its climate and geography change.
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Building techniques differ from one country to the other, and may even vary across the one country as vary the climate and geography.

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eg Building techniques differ from one country to another, and may even vary within a single country depending on the climate and geography.

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SurferIs the punctuation OK?
Delete the comma.
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Thank you everybody.. . Thank you Clive.
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Aspara Gus SurferIs the punctuation OK?Delete the comma.
I wasn't really sure about that comma, but felt a pause there would help avoid a rather lengthy sentence.

Or do you think it's only semantics that necessitate the usage of a comma? Thank you.
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It’s incorrect to split a compound predicate.
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Aspara GusIt’s incorrect to split a compound predicate.
Ohh.., yes. Thank you.
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The comma seems desirable to me in view of the length of each part of the sentence. It reflects how one would naturally pause if saying this aloud.

Clive
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CliveThe comma seems desirable to me in view of the length of each part of the sentence. It reflects how one would naturally pause if saying this aloud.
Likewise, we might naturally pause in The thing is I don’t have any money, but a comma would be just as wrong there.
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As written, that whole sentence seems a bit casual and maybe even substandard to me As such, I'm not sure I would go so far as to object to a comma.
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