I think we can manage thatJames Blast wrote:agree to disagreE Bastard?
cancer for my educacion?
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Well, I try not to let it get in the way as much as it used to. "If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go", as Curtis Mayfield said...
Actually, my first one's correct ("Yes, it's used that way, but incorrectly so. ") because the two commas separate an additional clause, but Sister Aquinas has got me on the second ("I know that's a bit of a simplification, but..."): absolutely no justification for a comma there (so I'll console myself by using another colon instead).taliabee wrote:ah but, we were told that, if you'd phrased the sentence such that it needed a comma before the conjunction, then you had phrased it incorrectly - go back and do it again!! she was a bit free with that ruler - still look around to check i'm doing nothing wrong whenever i see a nunmetal on metal wrote:<< on with mortar-board cap >>taliabee wrote: Oh! And, commas before conjunctions - rap over the knuckles from Sister Aquinas's ruler of doom there
Although it's commonly believed that we never use a comma before a conjuction (for example, when "and" introduces the last item in a list), there isn't really such a straightforward rule. The adverbial phrase "but incorrectly so" offers a contrast to the previous "it's used that way", so it's quite correct to use a comma there . It's also correct to use a comma before a conjunction if that conjunction is joining two simple sentences such as "I know that's a bit of a simplification" and "the convention of using it after "re" serves no punctuative purpose".
I think your Sister Aquinas was a bit too ready with her child-beating ways!
isnt grammar lovely?!
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I still haven't been clued into what part of Saint Patrick you were referring to, go on, tell me?
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school ?James Blast wrote:I still haven't been clued into what part of Saint Patrick you were referring to, go on, tell me?
where their was no such place as 'Marks and Spencer' apparently because if their was in a list the nun's would be f**ked right up they're ring of christ
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perfect sense as allas
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But...taliabee wrote:the nuns always win!!
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yeah, saint patrick's junior mixed and infants -collier row, blinding school ruled by sister aquinas -quite literally!
explains a lot about me now, actually - liking for black and pain - lol!
explains a lot about me now, actually - liking for black and pain - lol!
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