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  • 01-05-2015 10:48am
    #1
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Two things.

    I always believed that conjunctions should never be preceded or followed by a comma.
    Far away forests and far away foresters. Not far away forests, and far away foresters, for example.
    Am I right?
    If it is a rule, it certainly seems to be one that is going out of fashion.

    The other thing...
    The three full stops that seem to be almost acceptable now, though not in formal writing...yet.
    If there were to be rules on the triple full stop...what would they be?


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  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Look up the Oxford comma and ellipsis


  • #3
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Look up the Oxford comma and ellipsis
    But where's the fun in that?


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