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Carter Lee Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
regarding comma usage
Dear all,
I have found some sentence when I came cross in the internet as following.
"Now, if you're born into a very sterile
environment, as is increasingly the case in the western world, everything's kept terribly
clean, and one of the theories is that we just are not getting enough exposure to a variety
of bacteria at that very very early stage in that first month of life."
This is from one woman's scripting.
My question is that when she talk about that the listenner don't know about the commar also she does not tell the commar, but she's script is wrote commar. How to know that commar is used in?
Also when we talk about the something subject likely above that, how can we understand it?
I have found some sentence when I came cross in the internet as following.
"Now, if you're born into a very sterile
environment, as is increasingly the case in the western world, everything's kept terribly
clean, and one of the theories is that we just are not getting enough exposure to a variety
of bacteria at that very very early stage in that first month of life."
This is from one woman's scripting.
My question is that when she talk about that the listenner don't know about the commar also she does not tell the commar, but she's script is wrote commar. How to know that commar is used in?
Also when we talk about the something subject likely above that, how can we understand it?
Top answer
Commas often correspond to short pauses in speech. This is probably true for all the commas in your sentence. Carter Lee Also when we talk about the something subject likely above that, how can we understand it?
- Commas often correspond to short pauses in speech.
- This is probably true for all the commas in your sentence.
- Carter Lee Also when we talk about the something subject likely above that, how can we understand it?
- I can't understand what you are asking here.
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Commas often correspond to short pauses in speech. This is probably true for all the commas in your sentence.
Carter LeeAlso when we talk about the something subject likely above that, how can we understand it?I can't understand what you are asking here.
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GPYCommas often correspond to short pauses in speech. This is probably true for all the commas in your sentence.Carter LeeAlso when we talk about the something subject likely above that, how can we understand it?I can't understand what you are asking here.My question is that you can see the so many commas in speech scripting. So how do we understand all sente
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The basic sentence is:
"Now, if you're born into a very sterile environment, (then) everything's kept terribly clean ..."
"as is increasingly the case in the western world" is inserted as additional information (so-called "parenthetical"). The meaning of the inserted part is:
"it is increasingly the case in the western world that people are born into a very sterile envir
"Now, if you're born into a very sterile environment, (then) everything's kept terribly clean ..."
"as is increasingly the case in the western world" is inserted as additional information (so-called "parenthetical"). The meaning of the inserted part is:
"it is increasingly the case in the western world that people are born into a very sterile envir
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GPYThe basic sentence is:"Now, if you're born into a very sterile environment, (then) everything's kept terribly clean ...""as is increasingly the case in the western world" is inserted as additional information (so-called "parenthetical"). The meaning of the inserted part is:"it is increasingly the case in the western world that people are born into a very sterile enviro
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"everything's must/should kept" is ungrammatical. I suppose you mean "everything must/should be kept".
The original has no sense of "must/should". It just says everything is kept terribly clean (for people who are born into a sterile environment). This is almost the definition of "sterile", so strictly speaking the "If ... then ..." statement is a bit redundant. Nevertheless, it re
The original has no sense of "must/should". It just says everything is kept terribly clean (for people who are born into a sterile environment). This is almost the definition of "sterile", so strictly speaking the "If ... then ..." statement is a bit redundant. Nevertheless, it re
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