: Re: Comma between the following clauses in AP Style? The AP style says that a comma is not needed between two clauses that have the same subject. However, it would become ambiguous if I removed

I have the 2011 edition of the AP Stylebook, which gives the following as correct examples:

He promised this: The company will make good all the losses.
There were three considerations: expense, time, and feasibility.

Yours seems to fit the first example, so as an independent clause it would take a capital letter after the colon.
I would use both commas for absolute clarity.

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: Re: Comma between the following clauses in AP Style? The AP style says that a comma is not needed between two clauses that have the same subject. However, it would become ambiguous if I removed

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: I think if you indicated somewhere (preface, end notes, first footnote) that the translations are all yours, you could either write the Arabic and then your translation, or write it in English

: A cross-[What] kind of romance? In the scientific taxonomy of Living Things, you have: Life Domain Kingdom Phylum Class etc. down to Species, and maybe thence to Breed. If I were talking about

: Cheat. Drop some letters/syllables. It's true, in po'try, it cannae be changed (Feels like "can" needs another unstressed after it, doesn't it?)

: How best to format a novel written in Markdown I want to use a text editor (Emacs) to write a novel because I don't want to consider page layout and other similar issues. I want to use

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