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Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
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Whether it is giving financial donations, raising money for us, getting involved in our campaigns, volunteering, or being advocates for us, your support means everything to us.
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It separates the "whether" clause from the main clause. It corresponds to a natural pause in speech, or in the "mental speech" of reading. Commas like this are "simple" to understand because they correspond to obvious divisions of the sentence.

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  • It separates the "whether" clause from the main clause.
  • It corresponds to a natural pause in speech, or in the "mental speech" of reading.
  • Commas like this are "simple" to understand because they correspond to obvious divisions of the sentence.
  • I wouldn't try to make it more complicated than it is (unless you are interested in very technical punctuation theory).
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It separates the "whether" clause from the main clause. It corresponds to a natural pause in speech, or in the "mental speech" of reading. Commas like this are "simple" to understand because they correspond to obvious divisions of the sentence. I wouldn't try to make it more complicated than it is (unless you are interested in very technical punctuation theory).

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Jigneshbharati Whether it is giving financial donations, raising money for us, getting involved in our campaigns, volunteering, or being advocates for us, your support means everything to us.
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