Hi,
Could you please tell me whether the sentence below is correct or not?
You look better, did you lose weight?
Many thanks.
********** NOT A TEACHER **********
Hello, Ferdie.
(1) I
think that very strict teachers would be a little upset with
your written sentence.
(2) You have connected a statement (
You look better) with a
question (
Did you lose [some] weight?) by using a comma.
(3) Some books call this a comma splice. In formal writing,
this is considered "wrong."
(4) So
maybe it might be more correct to write:
Wow! You look great! [As Teacher EMSR suggested] Did you lose
some weight? [Using
some means that in your mind, you are
thinking of a number -- 10, 15 pounds?]
(5) If you wanted one sentence, it might be very formal:
You must have lost some weight, for you look really great!!!
(The conjunction
for connects your two sentences.)
THANK YOU