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Rule "comma between independent clauses"
This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.
| Description: |
comma between independent clauses |
| Message: |
Use a comma before '\4' if it connects two independent clauses (unless they are closely connected and short). |
| Category: |
Punctuation
(ID: PUNCTUATION)
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| Link: |
https://languagetool.org/insights/post/comma-before-and/ |
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect: |
- I'm sorry but Google Spreadsheets isn't supported yet.
Correction suggestion:
, but
- The smart plug works although the repeater always show no recent activity.
Correction suggestion:
, although
- Pardon me but your fly is undone.
Correction suggestion:
, but
- As of a storm in spring 2009, the sign is no longer there although the supporting posts are still visible.
Correction suggestion:
, although
- In 1999, Cygnus offered Cygwin 1.0 as a commercial product of interest in its own right although subsequent versions have not been released, instead relying on continued open source releases.
Correction suggestion:
, although
- The second phase would have added 1,444 MW this year but its contractors stopped work this month as lenders were unwilling to support the venture.
Correction suggestion:
, but
- Balaguer won in 1994 but most observers felt the election had been stolen.
Correction suggestion:
, but
- Our goal is to make this life changing step easy and affordable so average folks like you can benefit from the advantages of being ordained.
Correction suggestion:
, so
- Here is the original response but the letter pretty much supersedes this document.
Correction suggestion:
, but
- I've tried to approve but no products will come into the queue.
Correction suggestion:
, but
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Correct sentences
for comparison: |
- Owners of an Amazon Echo Show or Echo Spot can now fully answer Ring doorbells.
- Not only Jim but his parents are sick.
- Most are herbs, climber herbs, woody lianas or shrubs but some genus are canopy evergreen lauroid trees.
- It changed the rules, and it did so after the election was over.
- It is not clear yet when the discussions will be completed and wham a final decision will be issued
- I laughed so hard tears streamed down my face.
- Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts–or any work–by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.
- Engine fuel is stored in tanks, usually in the wings but larger aircraft also have additional fuel tanks in the fuselage.
- How could so many people go along with this?
- So far two customers has dropped out but argues it is small compared to its client base of 150 odd companies.
- We can now consider yet another interesting argument proposed by Socrates.
- Every inline element that has a width but no text content should become a `\uFEFF` during parsing.
- Functions that have only poles but no essential singularities are called meromorphic.
- ... and that it hires so many people so fast that processes break down.
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| ID: |
COMMA_COMPOUND_SENTENCE_2 [1]
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| Version: |
6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-24 22:33:09 +0100)
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