Do we need to put a comma in there?

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When her husband died she decided that she needed a change of air. so she sold the house in London and went to live in Tuscany.

Do we need to put a comma between the words 'died' and 'she' ?
 

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When her husband died she decided that she needed a change of air., so she sold the house in London and went to live in Tuscany.
I don't think we need to, but it's fine to use one.
 

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When her husband died she decided that she needed a change of air. so she sold the house in London and went to live in Tuscany.

Do we need to put a comma between the words 'died' and 'she' ?


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(1) I think that it would be helpful if you wrote:

When her husband died, she decided that she needed a change of

air. So she sold the house in London and went to live in Tuscany.

(a) In speech, there would be a natural pause after "died," so I think that

most American secondary teachers would strongly recommend a comma

in order to help guide readers (the purpose of punctuation?).

(b) A very (very) few teachers feel that "so" (when meaning "therefore") is

an adverb, and that it should not be used as a conjunction to connect two

independent sentences. Starting a new sentence with "so" would greatly please

those few strict teachers.

(i) Of course, many people would, indeed, write:

... needed a change of air, so she sold the house ....
 

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(1) I think that it would be helpful if you wrote:

When her husband died, she decided that she needed a change of

air. So she sold the house in London and went to live in Tuscany.

(a) In speech, there would be a natural pause after "died," so I think that

most American secondary teachers would strongly recommend a comma

in order to help guide readers (the purpose of punctuation?).

(b) A very (very) few teachers feel that "so" (when meaning "therefore") is

an adverb, and that it should not be used as a conjunction to connect two

independent sentences. Starting a new sentence with "so" would greatly please

those few strict teachers.

(i) Of course, many people would, indeed, write:

... needed a change of air, so she sold the house ....

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Thanks you two for the answers.
But you -two- mean that it's not a fixed rule in English written form, don't you?
 

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Thanks you two for the answers.
But you -two- mean that it's not a fixed rule in English written form, don't you?
There are very few absolute rules of punctuation in English.
 

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