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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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