Re: comma to link separate, yet related clauses?

Cool Breeze — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:23:12 GMT

Hi Believer

May I suggest that you post sentences written by people who know English. It is impossible to comment on anything that looks like English but but makes little sense.

Cheers

comma to link separate, yet related clauses?

Believer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:00:22 GMT

Hi,

I think you can use a comma to sort of link two separately written, yet very related-in-content clauses like this:

Thank you, it was good to receive a gift of appreciation by you last week.

I think 'Thank you' and what follows can be thought of as two separate clauses yet can be linked by a comma.

That was his decision, deciding to support his care his aged father by himself and not put the father somewhere difficult to care for was the right thing to do. -- Since the underlined clause contains an element, which is 'decision'. that is further elucidated by the longer clause that followed, I think it could be argued a comma is correclty used. Right?

But you wouldn't agree this use of a comma is correct, would you?

That was thrown abruptly, he could not have anticipated its coming while quite immersed in his conversation with his old friend. -- 'it' refers to a ball, in this case.

Are there a guideline as to this use of comma (if it is in fact correctly used)?

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Re: comma to link separate, yet related clauses?

comma to link separate, yet related clauses?