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jrwhite82
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 Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
�I really enjoy reading and learning English is more like a fun hobby for me.�
There is nothing wrong with that sentence. |
I respectfully disagree. The comma and "and" are required.
I really enjoy reading and learning English. That is fine.
However, when you add the "is more like a fun hobby for me." It makes the comma and and necessary.
Because in the journalist's example there are two independent clauses. These must be combined with a comma and conjunction. Otherwise, they must be separated into two individual statements.
In the sentence, "I really enjoy reading and learning English." "And" is functioning to connect two words. That is ok. But when you add the rest of the sentence (is more like a fun hobby for me) it becomes an independent clause. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| jrwhite82 wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
�I really enjoy reading and learning English is more like a fun hobby for me.�
There is nothing wrong with that sentence. |
I respectfully disagree. The comma and "and" are required.
I really enjoy reading and learning English. That is fine.
However, when you add the "is more like a fun hobby for me." It makes the comma and and necessary.
Because in the journalist's example, it is two independent clauses. These must be combined with a comma and conjunction. Otherwise, they must be separated into two individual statements.
In the sentence, "I really enjoy reading and learning English." "And" is functioning to connect two words. That is ok. But when you add the rest of the sentence (is more like a fun hobby for me) it becomes an independent clause. |
Especially in this particular case, because there would be an ambiguity about which clause the word "learning" would belong to if there were no comma. Without the comma, it initially seems as if "I really enjoy reading and learning English" is its own independent clause, which it isn't. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| cwflaneur wrote: |
| jrwhite82 wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
�I really enjoy reading and learning English is more like a fun hobby for me.�
There is nothing wrong with that sentence. |
I respectfully disagree. The comma and "and" are required.
I really enjoy reading and learning English. That is fine.
However, when you add the "is more like a fun hobby for me." It makes the comma and and necessary.
Because in the journalist's example, it is two independent clauses. These must be combined with a comma and conjunction. Otherwise, they must be separated into two individual statements.
In the sentence, "I really enjoy reading and learning English." "And" is functioning to connect two words. That is ok. But when you add the rest of the sentence (is more like a fun hobby for me) it becomes an independent clause. |
Especially in this particular case, because there would be an ambiguity about which clause the word "learning" would belong to if there were no comma. Without the comma, it initially seems as if "I really enjoy reading and learning English" is its own independent clause, which it isn't. |
Exactly. |
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