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The brackets just makes it look like the gents is also known as the coffee shopOriginally posted by JRCT View PostI used it to separate 3 items in my list of destinations. The gents, (the coffee shop) to get a coffee and my desk.
Let's not mention semis and colons in the same conversation as the gents.
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Like "Tom, Dick, and Harry" instead of "Tom, Dick and Harry"?
The second comma is an Oxford comma, which is optional.
Thanks for the lesson, though.Last edited by JRCT; 11 February 2015, 13:26.Comment
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Where "hot lunches" are possibly served!Originally posted by Batcher View PostThe brackets just makes it look like the gents is also known as the coffee shop
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That would mean moving the comma to say "the gents (the coffee shop),"Originally posted by Batcher View PostThe brackets just makes it look like the gents is also known as the coffee shop
I think it's just going to be easier to move the coffee shop into the gents.Comment
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Quoting a list, out of context from the OP is your best defence?Originally posted by JRCT View PostLike "Tom, Dick, and Harry" instead of "Tom, Dick and Harry"?
The second comma is an Oxford comma, which is optional.
Thanks for the lesson, though.
Never get into a battle of wits with an unarmed man
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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You'd be better off using square brackets to show that it was an omission from the original quotation.Originally posted by JRCT View PostI used it to separate 3 items in my list of destinations. The gents, (the coffee shop) to get a coffee and my desk.
Let's not mention semis and colons in the same conversation as the gents.
As others have said, you could put a comma before the reference to your desk but it's optional.Comment
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I thought it already had been?Originally posted by JRCT View PostThat would mean moving the comma to say "the gents (the coffee shop),"
I think it's just going to be easier to move the coffee shop into the gents.Comment
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