Hello,
Can please someone advise, is the below sentence correct
‘A high, accelerating rate of growth in money supply due to oil production and export and nominal domestic credit have created a buoyant construction industry expansion in the Middle East.’
/or I need to use a comma before the second ‘and’ ?
Many Thanks!
KR, Ionna.
Can please someone advise, is the below sentence correct
‘A high, accelerating rate of growth in money supply due to oil production and export and nominal domestic credit have created a buoyant construction industry expansion in the Middle East.’
/or I need to use a comma before the second ‘and’ ?
Many Thanks!
KR, Ionna.
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Will the comma be required before the second ‘and’ in the below sentence, as I also get confused with it.
I and my friend went to see monkey and donkey.
Many Thanks again,
Ionna
My friend and I went to see a monkey and a donkey. (It is courteous to mention yourself last.)
In your example, this would not count as "two and's." In the original discussion, you were speaking of two ands within the same series: "I can see grass and trees and blue sky."
In your latest example, the first "and" joins the two elements of the compound subject. The second "and" joins the two objects of the infinitive, in the predicate of the sentence. These two and's are functionally unrelated.
As an aside, out of politeness, we usually say, "my friend and I."
A famous (to me) exception is in the song "Come Saturday Morning," from the Lisa Minelli movie "The Sterile Cuckoo" - "Just I and my friend - we'll Saturday spend til the end of the day."
My maternal grandmother was named Iona (one "n"), from Canada. My cousin, named for her, went by "Nona." I don't often hear it.
Can please someone advise, is the below sentence correct
Here's an additional edit re subject/verb agreement..
‘A high, accelerating rate of growth in money supply due to oil production and export and nominal domestic credit
havehas created a buoyant construction industry expansion in the Middle East.’In addition, I don't recommend long adjectival phrases that involve several nouns.
Consider a buoyant construction industry expansion.
What exactly is buoyant? The expansion? The construction industry?
Best wishes, Clive
Anyway, a comma before the final "and" may be optional, but in my opinion it's definitely not required.