Re: -Crawl- YAVP (almost): MuNe
- From: "Erik Piper" <erik@xxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Mar 2006 02:31:46 -0800
Solf wrote:
P.S. Can anyone point me to a brief guide detailing where one puts
commas in English sentences? :) I am Russian and in Russian sentences
you put commas quite often. Somehow I am under impression that commas
are much less used in English.. but it always confuses me no end, so I
end up putting them in somewhat randomly (i.e. if it must be there in
Russian, I might or might not put it in English sentence). Thanks in
advance! :)
I don't have any easy links to any guides, though I'm sure they're out
there. However, if Russian is anything like Czech regarding comma
usage, then the big thing to watch out for is unnecessary commas
before/after certain words. A Czech would tend to make the following
mistakes without enough experience with English:
Please, do this for me. (Of course you *can* put a comma there, but
usually it sounds unnatural, whereas in Czech a comma after please is
required.)
I told him, that you were coming. (Czech requires a comma before "ze"
-- "that" -- whereas in many cases it's ungrammatical to use it in
English.)
Those are the big two; more generally, there are many kinds of clauses
(I think that's the word) where a comma is not required, and even not
grammatically correct, in English, but is require in Czech.
e.
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