Timeline for Hemingway sentence coordinating clauses with commas
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 8:17 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 27, 2015 at 6:47 | answer | added | Erik Kowal | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 6:43 | comment | added | Kris | It's not necessary to have semicolons replace the commas. The intention is not having subsequent clauses as independent clauses standing all by themselves each. Instead, the overall sentence is a coherent list -- consider each clause as an element of the list -- the comma becomes the natural choice then. HTH. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 6:16 | comment | added | Anonym | I think you're being tripped up by the but he liked her face, since but-clauses don't often appear in the middle of lists. It's just a tack-on to the she was not pretty point. The sentence is still perfectly grammatical. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 6:07 | history | asked | user99676 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |