Timeline for Comma rules - found a lot of special rules, but not general ones
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| May 18, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | vacip | @HotLicks Nice! :) | |
| May 18, 2016 at 19:21 | comment | added | Hot Licks | 1) Put a comma where there would naturally be a pause in speech. 2) When in doubt, leave it out. The rest is pedantry. | |
| May 18, 2016 at 19:01 | answer | added | Max | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 16, 2016 at 18:36 | vote | accept | vacip | ||
| May 16, 2016 at 16:48 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Your commas are exactly where most people would place them and are 100% correct. As to the first one, the relevant rule is this: non-restricting relative clauses generally require a comma (perhaps unless they are extremely short or in informal English). The second comma is motivated by the rule that two full (each with a subject and main verb) clauses separated by a paratactic/parallel conjunction should normally have a comma before the conjunction—again, perhaps unless the clauses are very short or the language informal. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 16:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 16, 2016 at 16:29 | answer | added | Steve Cooper | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 16, 2016 at 16:17 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 16, 2016 at 16:16 | history | asked | vacip | CC BY-SA 3.0 |