red an' dead
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- Great Britain
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Hello,
for anybody who's interested I believe I have altered my profile to good effect.
I still find gaping gaping commas a bit troublesome, however.
In 'The Penguin guid to punctuation' the following sentence illustrates my dilemma somewhat.
Yet, outside that door, lay a whole new world. is regarded as incorrect because if the words outside..door within the gapping commas are removed the result does not make sense e.g. Yet lay a whole new world. My problem, however, is that when Yet is removed from the sentence the rest does make sense. Am I right in my analysis? I mean can Yet be regarded as a 'weak interruption' (which should be the case, in my opinon).
for anybody who's interested I believe I have altered my profile to good effect.
I still find gaping gaping commas a bit troublesome, however.
In 'The Penguin guid to punctuation' the following sentence illustrates my dilemma somewhat.
Yet, outside that door, lay a whole new world. is regarded as incorrect because if the words outside..door within the gapping commas are removed the result does not make sense e.g. Yet lay a whole new world. My problem, however, is that when Yet is removed from the sentence the rest does make sense. Am I right in my analysis? I mean can Yet be regarded as a 'weak interruption' (which should be the case, in my opinon).
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