Hi, Dallas Hinton! -> Wayne Harris
I read your message from 04.08.2020 12:22

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 >>> I don't think it optional but Nesfield disagrees:
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 >> Speaking of punctuation, I missed a comma before `but'.

 WH>> Is this comma always required? If so, who stated and where it is
 WH>> stated?

 DH> It's not always (or even often) required. "But" is a conjunction,
 DH> not a conjuctive adverb and therefore the comma should or should
 DH> not be there based on context (cf. Fowlers ).

Is this rule applicable?

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A comma should be used before these conjunctions: and, but, for, nor,
yet, or, so to separate two independent clauses. They are called
co-ordinating conjunctions

https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/courses/Study_Skills/grammar-and-punctuat
ion/index.html#/id/5eaff0d388d7eb04c5efb44f

or

https://is.gd/Kt92EF
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Bye, Dallas!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2020

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