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"therefore" - please help me

0 Hi, I have a grammar problem! I really hope someone out there can help me. 02br
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00If the word "therefore" comes in the middle of a sentence, not at the beginning, is it ALWAYS necessary to have 'and' before it? 02br
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00For example: I like to eat apples, therefore I buy them often. 02br
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00Is that correct? Or is it necessary to write 02br
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00 I like to eat apples, and therefore I buy them often. 02br
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00THANK YOU for any help you can provide, 02br
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00Mark in Japan 0-
  

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0 Hi Mark 02br 02br 00no, it is not necessary to add "and" 02br 00nevertheless, 'therefore' comes rarely in the middle of a sentence. Most of the time, it starts a sentence, or is separated by a ";" 02br 00I like to eat apples; therefore, I buy them often. 0-

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  • 0 Hi Mark 02br 02br 00no, it is not necessary to add "and" 02br 00nevertheless, 'therefore' comes rarely in the middle of a sentence.
  • Most of the time, it starts a sentence, or is separated by a ";" 02br 00I like to eat apples; therefore, I buy them often.
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0 Hi Mark 02br
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00no, it is not necessary to add "and" 02br
00nevertheless, 'therefore' comes rarely in the middle of a sentence. Most of the time, it starts a sentence, or is separated by a ";" 02br
00I like to eat apples; therefore, I buy them often. 0-
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0 "Therefore" is not a conjunction, but an adverb. 02br
00And therefore it cannot connect two sentences by itself. 02br
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00 (01b00o02b00) I think. Therefore I am. 02br
00 (01b00x02b00) I think, therefore I am. 02br
00 (01b00o02b00) I think, and therefore
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0 Hi Paco, 02br
00I believe Descartes wrote 'Cogito ergo sum' without a comma and without 'et'. Would you say he was ungrammatical, or just that Latin uses different rules for grammar and punctuation? 02br
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00Best wishes, 02br
00Clive 0-
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0 If the word "therefore" comes in the middle of a sentence, not at the beginning, is it ALWAYS necessary to have 'and' before it? 02br
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00I like to eat apples, and therefore I buy them often. 02
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0 Hello Clive 02br
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00It's true "Cogito ergo sum" is translated word-to-word-wise into "I think, therefore, I am". But I believe this translation is ungrammatical. Does "I think, consequently, I am" sound grammatical to you? 02br
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0 Hi Paco, 02br
00No, I'd hesitate about "I think, consequently, I am" 02br
00but remove a comma and "I think, consequently I am" sounds OK to me, albeit in a somewhat rhetorical style. 02br
00So does "I think, therefore I am". 02br
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00Clive 0-
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0 Hello Clive 02br
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00"Rhetorical" may be the point. I wouldn't say "I'm Japanese, therefore I'm poor at English." 05002br
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0 Hi Clive 02br
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00Descartes wrote 'Cogito ergo sum' without a comma and without 'et'. OK. 02br
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00But 02br
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00Lacan wrote Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" with semicolon: I think; therefore I am. 02br
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00Would you say he was ungrammatical, or just that Lacan uses different rules for grammar and punctua
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0 Hi Yulysess, 02br
00Well, personally I think the semi-colon is the Devil's gift to punctuation, therefore it should be avoided. 02br
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00My understanding of Descartes's original statement is that it simply equates thinking with existing. Lacan, I believe, was trying to say something different and more complex by fooling around with the punctuation. 02br
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