Type of usage and accuracy.
1) Not before long he opened the event, two days before the arrival of the mayor.
Since only the part before the comma is an independent clause you can use a comma correctly: it is not a comma splice and stands with the comma fine.
2) My mom always had a love for Stevie Nicks, grew up listening to this for obvious reasons.
The sentence is missing an and conjunction for it to make sense and be grammatically correct.
What the difference between these examples. Why can the first just take a comma and the other must have the conjunction to make sense?
You could say the first example requires 'which was two days.
(by the way: someone is saying they were inspired by their Mom, and so it would need and Iif the conjunction was necessary.
Are these both ok, also.
It was a really busy road with lots of traffic, just chaos.
It was a really busy road with lots of traffic and just chaos.
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1) Not before long he opened the event, two days before the arrival of the mayor. Since only the part before the comma is an independent clause you can use a comma correctly: it is not a comma splice and stands with the comma fine. We commonly say 'before long', but I've never heard the expression 'not before long.
- 1) Not before long he opened the event, two days before the arrival of the mayor.
- Since only the part before the comma is an independent clause you can use a comma correctly: it is not a comma splice and stands with the comma fine.
- We commonly say 'before long', but I've never heard the expression 'not before long.
- It seems incorrect to me, in the same way that we say 'soon' but we don't say 'not soon'.
- Furthermore, I don't see what meaning it adds to the sentence.
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1) Not before long he opened the event, two days before the arrival of the mayor.
Since only the part before the comma is an independent clause you can use a comma correctly: it is not a comma splice and stands with the comma fine.
We commonly say 'before long', but I've never heard the expression 'not before long. It seems incorrect to me, in the same
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