What we are trying to demonstrate is how to join sentences together for an interesting piece of work. Readers can absorb more than one idea at a time and can feel frustrated by endless stops and starts; they are looking for information, stimulation, thoughts and points as well as an argument that involves them and takes them along. We should, however, make it clear that we are not contradicting here something we said earlier. We appear to be recommending the fusing of sentences. What we have in Blind, of course, is not fusing but instead joining sentences in a manne... Read more...
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1. Setting off the introductory element of a sentence
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Another instance in which the comma is necessary is where it is used to set off the introductory elements of a sentence. We can illustrate this by considering that last sentence. The subject of the sentence is another instance in which the comma is necessary. We could have started the paragraph, however, with an introductory clause:
If we move on to the second use of the comma, we can consider another instance in which the comma is necessary to set off the introductory element of a sentence.
In this example, the introductory element is just a way of establishing a link ease the reader into the main points being made. The same thinking is in evidence when we use tiny verb... Read more...