Timeline for Should there be a comma after this adverbial phrase?
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 2:30 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @eveline: Oh, haha, well, it doesn't matter anyway. Thanks for trying! | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 2:28 | comment | added | eveline | @EdwinAshworth Checked those out--helped a lot! | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 2:27 | comment | added | eveline | @Cerberus I HAVE LIKE 13 REPUTATION POINTS AND THE THING WON'T LET ME CLICK. I've been trying to vote it up since the moment you answered. Hahah. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 1:29 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @EdwinAshworth: Great! I would indeed treat after... as an adverbial clause, pace H&P. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 1:23 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Have corrected, and done a minor edit on your answer so that I could adjust voting. I was modelling on 'After I saw him' rather than 'From that moment ...'. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 1:22 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 1:21 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @eveline: As for whether or not to use the comma, see Shoe's answers here and here; largely the same considerations apply for adverbial phrases as for adverbial clauses. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 1:11 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @EdwinAshworth: It is not a clause: it merely contains a clause. Conversely, when she appeared from the palace is not a prepositional phrase, even though the most salient information arguably comes from the embedded prepositional phrase.. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:13 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | My personal rule is that an introductory phrase of more than three words gets a comma; fewer than three words, no comma; exactly three words, judgement call. The example sentence justifies the rule: the comma makes it much easier to parse. | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:09 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @eveline: Thanks for accepting my answer! And welcome to the site. P.S. You could also vote my answer up, if you think it is right...it's the round grey arrow above the number "0". | |
| Jul 17, 2014 at 0:08 | history | edited | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2014 at 23:42 | vote | accept | eveline | ||
| Jul 16, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | eveline | I see. I'd definitely forgotten what it was actually called (and what it actually was). Thanks! | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 23:30 | comment | added | eveline | Adverbial phrase! Let me change the question. Thanks so much. | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 23:27 | history | answered | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |