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What kind of comma is at play in this sentence from Middlemarch?
I had what I esteem was a really basic education in English grammar, so I’m a bit puzzled about the comma before ”that Will Ladislaw” in this sentence from George Eliot’s Middlemarch:
Perhaps, through … I’ve also observed commas before “that” in Polish grammar when I dabbled in it, but in English texts it seems a bit odd.
Would anyone here have a more confident answer? …
