: Re: Why don't writers add commas to lengthy sentences, to make them far more readable? Prof. Brooks Landon, U. Iowa, Ph.D. U. Texas at Austin. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of

It really depends on the sentence, in my opinion. For example, this is almost a grammatically correct sentence, however, I might want to use something other than commas, and that changes the tone of the sentence.

The sentence above rewritten: For example, this is almost a grammatically correct sentence. However, I might want to use something other than commas; that changes the tone of the sentence.

(Sidenote: I removed the word "and", only because otherwise that sentence would not be grammatically correct)

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