: Re: Commas at the beginning of a sentence: should I follow convention or intuition? An example from my own writing (Mother and daughter are burying their deceased dog): As planned that Friday,

I am no native speaker of English, but in my native languages I break conventions when clarity is at stake. Consider this spoken rendition:

As planned (pause) that Friday mom and I...

As opposed to

As planned that Friday (pause) mom and I...

In the second case, where I mean that the planning took place on Friday, I would definitely add a comma. Otherwise the reader without prior context is highly unlikely to catch the intended meaning.

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