Hi, Alexander -- on Aug 05 2020 at 17:11, you wrote:


AK> Is this rule applicable?

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

AK> https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/courses/Study_Skills/grammar-a
AK> nd-punctuation/index.html#/id/5eaff0d388d7eb04c5efb44f

cAK> or

AK> https://is.gd/Kt92EF
AK> ----- The end of the citation -----

There are a couple of problems here: first, I can't go to either of the
links, as they both come up as possible malware sites (meaning that the
address shown doesn't match the address the site itself reports);
second, technically speaking "so" is not a conjunction (based on Miss
Grundy's teaching of 65 years ago!).

Regardless of it's status, I would opt to rewrite the sentence so as to
avoid the issue. e.g.:

A comma should be used before [are you sure you didn't mean to type
"after"? dh] conjunctions.  The term "fanboys" is a mnemonic for the
words for, and, but, or, nor, yet, so, which are used  to separate two
independent clauses. They are called co-ordinating conjunctions.



Cheers... Dallas

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