Timeline for Comma usage in parallel structure without conjunctions?
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| Feb 5, 2017 at 23:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's a more literary rather than a newer style. But it defeats the 'appositives are regularly offset by eg pairs of commas' prescription. | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 15:07 | comment | added | J. Taylor | Edwin Ashworth, I would prefer a conjunction: "There were no vegetables nor fresh fruit to be had". "There were no vegetables, no fresh fruit, to be had" reads to me as "vegetables" and "fresh fruit" might be fungible terms. Having learned and practiced most of my English in the 20th Century could make be backward as to some current usage, but I do not believe I'm too far off. | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 14:47 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | What about 'There were no vegetables, no fresh fruit, to be had'? | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 13:53 | history | answered | J. Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |