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Little Girl Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation - comma and semi-colon

Hi, experts.

How would you suggest punctuating this sentence?

We entertain all passengers, enuring they face no hassle; enjoy their time; and reach their destinations safely.

We entertain all passengers; enuring they face no hassle, enjoy their time, and reach their destinations safely.

Thanks.
  

Top answer

We entertain all passenger s, ensuring they face no hassle s, enjoy their tim e, and reach their destinations safely.

— Mister Micawber

  • We entertain all passenger s, ensuring they face no hassle s, enjoy their tim e, and reach their destinations safely.
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We entertain all passengers, ensuring they face no hassles, enjoy their time, and reach their destinations safely.
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Thank you for answering. I meant they enjoy their time and reach their destinations safely. Wouldn't then it be a semi-colon before "and reach", too?
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Little Girl Wouldn't then it be a semi-colon before "and reach", too?
Actually, I am getting rather old, my eyesight is dimming, and I mispunctuated in my post above. I have fixed it now—it should be all commas and nothing else except an ending period.
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Mister MicawberWe entertain all passengers, ensuring they face no hassles, enjoy their time, and reach their destinations safely.
On the face of it, using commas only does make it look simpler. However, if you look more closely, wouldn't it increase the possibility of it being read as "We entertain and we enjoy"? I, therefore, thought using semi-colons before "
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If it bothers you, we can insert the elided 'that':

We entertain all passengers, ensuring that they face no hassles, enjoy their time, and reach their destinations safely.
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How do you think it would be better? With or without "that"?
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Since it was not transparent to you with 'that' omitted, I suggest that you keep it in. That way is a bit more formal, also.
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generally speaking; you use "that" in formal writing but in speaking or in informal writing you can omitte it peacefully and still your sentence be correct.
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