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This has become the old song to slip away to, thinking about it in that way it's hard to think that another song could have done it.
Is thinking the subject and therefore should begin a new sentence?
Or should it be recast as:
Thinking about it that way, it's hard to think that another song could have done it.
Commencing with a drink in The First Post pub, then on to The Old Familiar pub, and, all before the last bittersweet drink at the World's End.
Can we start sentences with commencing/thinking...actions as the subject of the sentences.
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panda blue 483 This has become the old song to slip away to, thinking about it in that way it's hard to think that another song could have done it. Is thinking the subject and therefore should begin a new sentence? You are correct that a new sentence should start at "Thinking".
- panda blue 483 This has become the old song to slip away to, thinking about it in that way it's hard to think that another song could have done it.
- Is thinking the subject and therefore should begin a new sentence?
- You are correct that a new sentence should start at "Thinking".
- As written, this is a comma splice (a kind of faulty sentence construction in which independent clauses are joined only with a comma).
- "thinking" is not the main subject of the second part though.
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panda blue 483This has become the old song to slip away to, thinking about it in that way it's hard to think that another song could have done it.
Is thinking the subject and therefore should begin a new sentence?
You are correct that a new sentence should start at "Thinking". As written, this is a comma splice (a kind of faulty sentence construction in
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