Hello Everybody,
I would appreciate experts' response to following comma concept.
I recently saw the following line in a novel and I have been pondering use of comma to join independent and dependent for quite some time.
The often-used phrase "pay-attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.
First underline , and if you try to go beyond your budget has a comma and the a connector "and" so it is introducing a independent clause?
In second underline: , you will fail. There is no connector word just a clause. Is it independent clause or dependent clause?
I would really appreciate your responses.
thanks
-K
I would appreciate experts' response to following comma concept.
I recently saw the following line in a novel and I have been pondering use of comma to join independent and dependent for quite some time.
The often-used phrase "pay-attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.
First underline , and if you try to go beyond your budget has a comma and the a connector "and" so it is introducing a independent clause?
In second underline: , you will fail. There is no connector word just a clause. Is it independent clause or dependent clause?
I would really appreciate your responses.
thanks
-K
