Timeline for Bob, he went to the store
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| Apr 12, 2020 at 23:40 | comment | added | LPH | You could certainly find suspension points or an exclamation point ("Captain Smith! He led the charge and saved the Queen. Her generals? They just stood there petrified".) and there isn't a great difference. Why not a full stop, which gives the utterance the import of a recapitulating statement without the exclamatory turn? | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 19:38 | history | edited | Jules Cocovin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2020 at 19:31 | comment | added | Jules Cocovin | I went with the full stop because I read "Bob." as a nominal sentence meaning something along the lines of: "This is Bob in his entirety as far as both mind and body go." The other option I considered was the eM dash. But that may be my native tongue speaking inwhich the phrase in question it's not so uncommon. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 19:16 | history | edited | Jules Cocovin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | user373710 | @Jules, I think subject doubling serves the purpose to emphasise what the subject did compared with other referents, as in "As for Bob, he...", but in this case a comma seems more appropriate than a full stop since it reflects a short prosodic interval. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It is more idiomatic to use a comma rather than a period in the examples you give. | |
| Apr 12, 2020 at 16:53 | history | answered | Jules Cocovin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |