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0 01span01i00At ground level, ozone is a harmful pollutant, but 01u00in00 00the00 00stratosphere02u00 00it shields 00the00 Earth from 00the00 most biologically harmful radiation emitted by 00the00 Sun, radiation 00in00 00the00 ultraviolet band of 00the00 spectrum.02i02br
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0Hi,02br
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01font01i00At ground level, ozone is a harmful pollutant, but 01u00in the stratosphere02u00 it shields the Earth from the most biologically harmful radiation emitted by the Sun, radiation in the ultraviolet band of the spectrum.02br
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02i00Do we need a comma after stratosphere
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11font10Do we need a comma after stratosphere?10 No.12font12br
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10Why NO? Isn't there a break in speach a
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00You 01i00could02i00 put commas before and after 'in the stratosphere', but it's such a short phrase that no break is really needed. Sometimes, such breaks just interrupt the 'thought'.02br
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00If you add these commas, you'd probably need to remove the comma before 'but', since there would be too many commas. A lot
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0 Thanks Clive. It really helped.02br
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