Timeline for Adverb placement, before or after the verb
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| Mar 6, 2016 at 22:09 | history | undeleted | ws04 | ||
| Mar 6, 2016 at 22:05 | history | deleted | ws04 | via Vote | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 22:05 | comment | added | ws04 | Well, it certainly is possible... | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 6:39 | comment | added | deadrat | Are you saying that it's possible to interpret the then-less sentence to mean that the program checkmated its author before it was coded? That would be quite a dream. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 5:18 | comment | added | ws04 | Wouldn't you technically lose information if you remove the then, since it explicitly states that the checkmating happens after the coding? | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 4:36 | comment | added | deadrat | You have misread your cite. Commas precede dependent modiyfing clauses to show that they're non-restrictive (or, if you prefer, nonessential). The OP's sentence has a compound predicate nominative "to code and to have). Generally speaking, commas separate conjoined independent clauses, not other conjoined structures. There are good reasons not to follow the general rule, but they are not applicable here. (PS it's actually the then that's superfluous.) | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 4:05 | history | answered | ws04 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |