Re: Syntax issues in Policy Manual
Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com> writes:
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 19:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> "In all cases, the part of the field contents on the same line as the
>>> field name, is empty."
>> The second comma here *would* be a grammatical error. You cannot
>> separate the noun from the verb with a comma.
> Not according to Strunk and White. They say to never have the first
> comma without the second.
I think you're misunderstanding Strunk and White. The first comma is
setting off the adverbial phrase "In all cases," which is one of those
things you can do or not depending on how much you want to separate it
from the sentence and cue a reader's pause. There's no second valid
place to put a comma in that sentence.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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