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Can anyone help me with the sentence below? By treating their elders well parents send a message to their children that they too would like to be accorded that honor, respect and good treatment in old age. My question is: shouldn’t it have a comma between the words well and parents? So it would be like: by treating their elders well, parents send……
30 de out de 2024 09:20
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Yes, and as a British English speaker, I would also spell honour with the ‘u’
30 de out de 2024 09:30
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I'd put a comma there yes, I'd also put one after 'respect'.
30 de out de 2024 09:24
You as the author can decide where you want to place the commas or rest pause that your readers should follow. You can even break up the long sentence in two or three smaller sentences. Shorter sentences make it clearer and more obvious as to where to stop and start each passage. 1. By treating their elders well, parents send a message to their children that they too would like to be accorded that honor, respect and good treatment in old age. 2. By treating their elders well parents send a message to their children, that they too would like to be accorded that honor, respect and good treatment in old age. 3. By treating their elders well parents send a message to their children. That they too would like to be accorded that honor, respect and good treatment in old age. (2 SENTENCES) 4. By treating their elders well. Parents send a message to their children that they too would like. To be accorded that honor, respect and good treatment in old age. (3 SENTENCES) 5, 6, 7, 8. It's up to you to direct your readers. Those readers that actuall read punctuation. Yes the first part of your sentence is too long and needs a rest or a comma. Between the words well and parents is a natural place to take a rest in reading.
30 de out de 2024 14:20
Some people will insist it is strictly needed for correct grammar, but I believe it is not. I believe its a stylistic preference. But nearly everyone will agree it improves clarity so is a good idea. The main place I see commas omitted in instances like this, is in legal documents where there are often very long sentences so the use of commas is often reserved for when they're absolutely necessary, so as not to undermine their use in other parts of the sentence.
30 de out de 2024 14:28
Este conteúdo viola nossas Diretrizes da Comunidade.
30 de out de 2024 09:57
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