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Old 04-03-2012, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by onlythetruth View Post
Heavens, there was nothing wrong at all with what you wrote--your punctuation was entirely correct.

One of the best writers in the world--Jane Austen--used a lot of punctuation, too!

Agggghhh! I know, and I hate it! Oh boy, please don't get mad at me for that...

The problem is that I think in clauses (heh, there are not many people I could have this conversation with ) and frequently subordinate as I go along, merrily splitting the main clause as my train of thought takes me somewhere else. So I keep track with the, as you said, perfectly correct and rather pedantic commas.

But, and this is the bit I don't want you to hate me for, reading Austen drives me nuts. Beautiful social observation but far too many commas heh heh

And I'm aware that I've started two sentences with dependent conjunctions...

Nerd alert!

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