• Raykin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Upvoted but I wish you would have run your post through ChatGPT as well my friend. That was hard to read.

      • Johanno@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        I could use german grammar to set the commas, but then I would have probably 10 to many for English grammar. So I tend to use less in English.

      • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Comma rules in German are logical and follow set rules. When I asked my English teacher about comma rules in English, she said she’s not teaching them cause they’re too complicated.
        When I asked my English teacher during my foreign exchange year in the US, she basically said the same.

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          7 months ago

          As a native English speaker, I barely understand comma rules either. The only person I know that I would expect to always get commas right has a Master’s degree in English. The extremely oversimplified rule I was taught as a young child was to add a comma anywhere you would naturally pause while speaking. Doesn’t always work, but it works well enough.