Bob drank a few pints of lager

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Bassim

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I am wondering if my sentence is grammatically correct. I am not sure if my punctuation is correct.

Bob drank a few pints of lager and, when the alcohol caught up with him, he became voluble and started singing.
 

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I'd leave out the commas.
 

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If you leave the commas in the sentence, you should remove he.
 

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Several might beat a few​, at least in BrE where we don't drink by halves. ;-)
 
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