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   Hi, Wayne -- on Aug 04 2020 at 21:28, you wrote:   
      
    >>   
    >>> I don't think it optional but Nesfield disagrees:   
    >>   
    >> Speaking of punctuation, I missed a comma before `but'.   
      
   WH> Is this comma always required?  If so, who stated and where it is   
   WH> stated?   
      
   It's not always (or even often) required. "But" is a conjunction, not a   
   conjuctive adverb and therefore the comma should or should not be there   
   based on context (cf. Fowlers ).   
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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