Timeline for A sentence after a comma without any explicit coordination conjunction, is it allowed?
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 10:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Grammatically it's a device often used. It was so hot that people were fainting. / It was so hot, people were fainting. The comma is needed when the 'that' is deleted, to avoid garden-pathiness or even ambiguity. However, I don't think the logic is great in this example, pairing rather disparate concepts (so convenient that it was cheaper than ...). Convenient usually costs more. | |
| S Jun 9, 2015 at 7:43 | history | suggested | Eilia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 6:31 | history | asked | Root Lopht | CC BY-SA 3.0 |