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Punctuate nonrestrictive clauses

Restrictive clauses never are set off by punctuation; nonrestrictive clauses always are.

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The main problem which remarkably few writers are aware of is that of failing to set off a nonrestrictive clause by punctuation-whether by commas, dashes, or parentheses.
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The main problem, which remarkably few writers are aware of, is that of failing to set off a nonrestrictive clause by punctuation-whether by commas, dashes, or parentheses.

Writers who remember the first comma sometimes forget to put in the second.

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