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Thu 26 Jan, 2017 04:40 pm
Is it acceptable to put a comma before a clause without an explicit subject?
For example:
A good teacher presents material in an amusing way, cares about a positive atmosphere in the classroom.
The sentence above is taken from my notebook, and I am curious whether it is grammatically correct.
@centrox,
A good teacher presents material in an amusing way and cares about a positive atmosphere in the classroom.
@Nat093,
I can't say whether Cen is technically correct, but I've seen that construction probably hundreds if not thousands of times, have long assumed it's perfectly okay. Many grammaticasl "rules" are totally ignoredby almost all
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