Question about punctuation
Jul. 16th, 2021 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaHere is a sentence with three variations in the comma placement:
1) It was not yet noon, and though it was October, Keith thought he might reach Ardroy that same day.
2) It was not yet noon and, though it was October, Keith thought he might reach Ardroy that same day.
3) It was not yet noon, and, though it was October, Keith thought he might reach Ardroy that same day.
I feel like 1) is the most common today and the one I would have used before my current fandom. But the 1925 book I'm writing fic for only uses 2) and 3), so that's what I am now using in my fic. I suppose 2) and 3) do make more sense in a way, because if you remove the phrase "though it was October" with its surrounding commas, you still get a sentence that works, which is not the case in the first one if you remove "and though it was October" with its surrounding commas.
My sample here is just one author, but I do wonder whether 2) and 3) are more old-fashioned ways of using commas?
1) It was not yet noon, and though it was October, Keith thought he might reach Ardroy that same day.
2) It was not yet noon and, though it was October, Keith thought he might reach Ardroy that same day.
3) It was not yet noon, and, though it was October, Keith thought he might reach Ardroy that same day.
I feel like 1) is the most common today and the one I would have used before my current fandom. But the 1925 book I'm writing fic for only uses 2) and 3), so that's what I am now using in my fic. I suppose 2) and 3) do make more sense in a way, because if you remove the phrase "though it was October" with its surrounding commas, you still get a sentence that works, which is not the case in the first one if you remove "and though it was October" with its surrounding commas.
My sample here is just one author, but I do wonder whether 2) and 3) are more old-fashioned ways of using commas?
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Date: 2021-07-16 02:45 pm (UTC)I just asked the kids, who were recently taught this (UK). (I wasn't taught punctuation at all apart from full stops). The 13 year-old says she was taught that there are three types of parentheses, commas, brackets and dashes, so she would put commas round "though it was October" but the 17 year-old says when you read it, you pause after "noon" so you need a comma there. Then the youngest said but three commas would be too many.
We don't know, basically :-)
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Date: 2021-07-16 09:12 pm (UTC)I wonder if I'm also influenced by Swedish in instinctively going for 1)? In Swedish I would've definitely done the equivalent of that.