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From: "Peter B.Hill" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] A problem with double commas (TMG 5.12)
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 11:40:37 -0400
References: <4.2.0.58.20040430200119.00a5c858@pop.rcn.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601c42f24$913479c0$6401a8c0@hpp1700>


Myrnice:-

Yes, that works, and thanks for your response. And you're right,
it DOES read better.

But does my inability to delete the extra comma imply that the
commas are hard-wired somehow, so that the only alternative I have is to
rearrange the sentence? I would like to think that, regardless of the order
of the elements of a sentence, I still have control over its punctuation.

Thanks again, Myrnice.

Pete Hill

At 10:32 PM 4/30/2004 -0400, William M Roberts wrote:
>Peter
>
>You may want to change your sentence construction to something like:
>
>[P]<[PAR]> was born <[DD]><[L]><[M]>
>
>This will fix the double comma problem and I think it reads better like:
>
>William Myrnice ROBERTS1,2,2, son of William Henry ROBERTS and Loretta Agnes
>HAMILTON, was born on Sunday 25 April 1937 in Miami, Dade County, Florida,
>USA.3,4,5
>
>Myrnice
>
>"Peter B.Hill" wrote on Friday, April 30, 2004 8:14 PM
>Subject: [TMG] A problem with double commas (TMG 5.12)
>
>
> > In an Individual Narrative report, I consistently get, in the birth line
> > something like:
> >
> > ... at Reading, Vermont,, son of Hezekiah Leavens....
> >
> > Note the double comma after Vermont.
> >
>
> > Pete Hill


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