On Sat 20 Jan 2024 at 17:09:58 (-0000), Curt wrote:
> On 2024-01-19, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+0000), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> >> Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I won, and you lost
> >>
> >> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in
> >> the closely related expression "I won, you lost."
> >
> > That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost." and
> > "I won, and you lost." are two different sentences.
> >
>
> AFAIK, "you lost" is an independent clause and should be separated from
> the independent clause that precedes it with a comma before the
> coordinating conjunction.
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Definition of Coordinating Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions join grammatically similar elements
(two nouns, two verbs, two modifiers, two independent clauses):
and
or
nor
so
but
for
yet
How to punctuate coordinating conjunctions
When a coordinating conjunction joins two independent clauses,
a comma is used before the coordinating conjunction
(unless the two independent clauses are very short).
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https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/coordconj/
Cheers,
David.
