Well, I guess I will never be an editor.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > The sentence 'For since the self is the individuating existence
> > of a nature, God's presence, which is existence itself, can hold
> > that self *at its highest quivering stress without absorbing it'
> > seems to not be punctuated clearly. I would write 'For since the
> > self is the individuating existence of a nature; God's presence,
> > which is existence itself, can hold that self *at its highest
> > quivering stress without absorbing it.' I think that semicolon
> > makes it less ambiguous.
>
> Just for the record: A semicolon would make it ungrammatical.
> "For since the self is the individuating existence of a nature"
> is not a complete sentence and therefore should not be followed
> by a semicolon.
>
> I see no ambiguity or problematic punctuation in the sentence
> as written, FWIW.
>
> Here's a sentence with the same structure:
>
> Because she often works late, her husband, who does the
> cooking, prepares dishes that she can warm up in the
> oven when she gets home.
>
