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punctuation help brain dead today - cheyenne

Posted: Oct 26, 2011

Punctuation help please... brain dead today. Is this punctuated correctly? "He is exercising in spite of this and, with this and diet, he has been able to bring his weight down steadily in recent months as I directed him to."

No..try this: - HelpMT

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He is exercising in spite of this, and with this and diet he has been able to bring his weight down steadily in recent months as I directed him to." The comma goes before the conjunction "and." Treat "with this and diet he has been able...." as a sentence that can stand on its own.

I would do it.... - GT

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just the way you have it. I am old school and we were always taught that "and" takes the place of a comma. If you put a comma before the word "and" your sentence would be something to this effect...He is exercising in spite of this and and with this and diet. You enclose the words that could be left out of the sentence and it would still make sense. With this and diet should be enclosed with commas. Just my take.

You need a comma before AND - Cheesey

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Correct English. You have 2 complete sentences. As a rule, you need the comma before "and" to show that.

I would do this.

"He is exercising in spite of this, and with this and diet, he has been able to bring his weight down steadily in recent months as I directed him to."

I respectfully disagree...sm - GT

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Regardless of the fact there may be 2 complete sentences, commas are used to enclose any part of a sentence that could be left out without using a period and the sentence would still make sense. If done the way you suggest, the sentence would have to be changed with added periods (taking into account the added info--with this and diet): He is exercising in spite of this. He has been able to bring his weight down steadily in recent months as I directed him to.

Since there is an "and"...He is exercising in spite of this AND (with this and diet) he has been able to bring his weight down...

"With this and diet" is simply more info but the sentence wouldn't make sense if you left out the first "and" so therfore should not be included within the commas.

Because the sentence, "He is exercising in spite of this..." would make no sense on it's own and that is the reason for the extra sentence with the added "and" "he has been able to..."

Punctuation and brain dead - Vera

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I agree with GT.

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