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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AK>  [...] according to punctuation rules, the gaping comma   
    AK>  should be used:   
      
    AK>  "Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man;   
    AK>  and writing, an exact man."   
      
    AH>  Hmm... nice theory, except that the sentence continues   
    AH>  after "exact man" and Bacon uses a number of commas there   
    AH>  (https://www.enotes.com).   
      
    AK>  I haven't found there anything on this account.   
      
      
              Sorry... my mistake.  That's where I found a useful analysis of the   
   meaning by William Delaney, but not the complete sentence.  What I had in mind   
   was the expanded quotation I found at https://www.forbes.com/quotes/2933.  :-)   
      
      
      
    AH>  I realize.. before you need to ask... why I may suggest   
    AH>  you add a comma here or there even though it appears on   
    AH>  the surface that I'm not taking my own advice. :-)   
      
      
    AK>  It's interesting - if you had used "want" instead   
                                                    |instead of   
      
    AK>  "suggest" would you add "to" before "add"?   
      
      
    AK>  "I may want you TO add comma here".   
      
      
              From a strictly grammatical POV, it would be correct to say "I want   
   you to add a comma here".  With advanced students, however, I'm much more of a   
   descriptivist.  I reckon folks like you are capable of deciding for themselves   
   what to do if they have enough information & I'll gladly contribute some.  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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