katouna@yamaha-motor.co.jp wrote:
>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.
There's no single right answer. Personally, I think that more formal
writing requires the comma and less formal writing does not. It really
depends on the audience.
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Jack Hamilton
California
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<> Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
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