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| Oct 15, 2013 at 18:28 | comment | added | TrevorD | @JanusBahsJacquet In the suggestion in your least-but-one comment, I would omit "the" before "Haringey". We might say "... to the Haringey, ... Council websites", but not "to the Haringey, ... Councils". | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 16:59 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Heh, I didn't even realise I'd put that in there—pure cruise-control. You're absolutely right of course: that comma can go or stay with no difference in meaning whatsoever (as long as it's consistent with the rest of the text on the site, natch). | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 15:56 | comment | added | Barrie England | Yeh, I like your last version - but there's still no need for the final comma. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | On second thought, really I think I’d just remove the word ‘website(s)’ altogether, since it’s obvious (as we’re talking about links) that the links lead to websites: “At the bottom of the page, you can find links to the Charity Commission, as well as (to) the Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Enfield councils”. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 15:51 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | To me, the first ‘and’ sounds clunky. I would change it to ‘as well as’ and perhaps add a definite article as well. Separating the Commission’s site from the others’, though, makes the single plural form sound strange—I’d add an extra anaphor. I’d also get rid of ‘more’, which seems to contradict the fact that you are actually naming which links can be found, and move the adverbial (for no reason other than euphony): “You can find quick links to the website of the Charity Commission at the bottom of the page, as well as (to) those of the Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Enfield councils”. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 15:42 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |