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Praised43 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Puntuation of "THEN"

considering puncutaion of the word "Then" is the following sentence correct and if yes / no when in general we use punctuation for the word "THEN"?

"The computaion, then, was done for all the texts."
  

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Hello, praised - and welcome to English Forums. The punctuation in your sentence is correct, but the use of 'then' is rather informal, and I suggest that you recast: The computation was subsequently performed for all the texts.

  • Hello, praised - and welcome to English Forums.
  • The punctuation in your sentence is correct, but the use of 'then' is rather informal, and I suggest that you recast: The computation was subsequently performed for all the texts.
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Hello, praised - and welcome to English Forums.

The punctuation in your sentence is correct, but the use of 'then' is rather informal, and I suggest that you recast:

The computation was subsequently performed for all the texts.

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