Another comma rule :)

Hi there and welcome back!

I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. I’ll start the year off with another comma rule, how’s that? This rule is taken from: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style” fourth edition.

Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.

Here are a few examples:

The apartment was rather large, but they didn’t want to fill it up with clutter.

He said he would be home by 7pm, and he was true to his word.

Notes: An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, and a conjunction is a connecting word like “and” or “but”.

So, that’s all for now folks!

All the best,

Julia