| Re: Query: "," (comma) after "over time" |
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| katouna (katouna@yamaha-motor.co.jp) |
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From: katouna@yamaha-motor.co.jp
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Subject: Re: Query: "," (comma) after "over time"
Date: 9 Mar 2006 16:20:04 -0800
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Hello Miss Elaine Eos. Thank you very much for your enlightenment. I
just wonder, not limited to this example and in my limited knowledge,
that it seems to me that many native English speakers prefer to skip
such a comma? I thought frequent use of punctuations distract the
reader's concentraction, so the native people would choose to skip the
use of commas despite what a grammar book says??? But this would simply
be just the writer's negligence or jut to save space. I apologize for
my insolent comment, but I'm interested to know what is more readable
and "sound authentic" style, since I'm not a native English speaker.
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