Is the following punctuated correctly?
A. There is a bird that chirps outside my window, and, every morning during the spring, it wakes me before my alarm goes off.
I am wondering if the adverb phrase (“every morning during the spring”) must be set off by commas. Or could the following be correct?
B. There is a bird that chirps outside my window, and every morning during the spring it wakes me before my alarm goes off.
Thanks.
You'll find that most style guides advise separating an introductory adverbial adjunct from its main clause, but you don't need a preceding comma. Surrounding such a construct with commas may mislead your reader into expecting an aside, as in:
There is a bird that chirps outside my window, and horrible to say, it wakes me before my alarm goes off.
I would remove the comma after "and" and keep the comma before. The "and" is joining two separate clauses, and in my opinion is necessary:
"There is a bird that chirps outside my window, and every morning during the spring, it wakes me before my alarm goes off."
