Timeline for Comma placement for a parenthetical after "and"?
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| Jul 21, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | Mick | @JanusBahsJacquet I was idly perusing my past answers, when I came across this effort. Impressed, I thought to myself, "Gosh! Did I write all that?" When I came to your last comment, I realised that, no, I didn't. Nice work! | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 18:44 | comment | added | Rogare | Nice answer, thanks! Maybe a short TL;DR at the top could be useful for future readers of this question? | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 17:35 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Mick I took the liberty of editing it all into a coherent and sequential order, but it ended up being rather a profoundly altering edit; feel free to roll back if you feel the answer is now too completely changed. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 17:34 | history | edited | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 17:16 | comment | added | Mick | @JanusBahsJacquet I've included your comments, since I think that they are too valuable to be lost to comment harvesting. Please feel free to edit if you want to. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 17:14 | history | edited | Mick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 17:04 | vote | accept | Rogare | ||
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I’d be one of the purists there who would strongly prefer the comma before the and — probably even more so because and just sounds unnatural to me here in any capacity. The two statements are too orthogonal for and to sound logical to me. Even if they were more ‘conjunctionally related’ statements, though, I’d always opt for the comma before and, even if I left out the one before (and optionally the one after) if needed. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:57 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | I would opt for your third example: "Here's a summary of our discussion and, if needed, more detail can be found at www.website.com." Adding an additional comma before "and" just chops up the sentence too much. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:55 | comment | added | Mick | @JanusBahsJacquet Thanks for that. What about my third option? | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:53 | history | edited | Mick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:53 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | A is also fine, though, since if needed is not necessarily a parenthetical. If you pause before it, then it's a parenthetical; if you don't, then it's not. More importantly, though, I find the use of and here unusual to begin with. I would definitely advise splitting it up into two sentences as the middle part of your answer says (though my preference would perhaps be for a semicolon rather than a full stop). | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:52 | history | edited | Mick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:47 | history | answered | Mick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |