do complex sentences always have to have commas or sum type of punctuation?
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All of the things your teachers tried to get you to learn about sentence structure and punctuation were important!\nPesky punctuation and correct spelling make it possible for you to communicate effectively with other people. You can see this demonstrated very clearly on this site as you read some of the entries that make no sense, or are so confused that you wonder if the writer had any idea what he wanted to know!\n\nSo, to answer your question, no. You can write anything in any fashion you want. \n\nBut if you want to be understood, yes.
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Could be your lack of punctuation.
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One in which punctuation, grammar and syntax are used correctly.
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I think the commas after Professor are not needed. Just making an educated guess, though.
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The first sentence and the last one too are both correctly punctuated, mate, they both make the same sense and are fully acceptable.\n\nIf u have a doubt, u can use this sentence either,"While mother WAS DRIVING, father studied the road map." or this one too,"Father studied the road map while mother was driving."\n\nSentence B and C are definitely wrongly punctuated.\n\nHope it helps mate
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Wheee!!! Really looking to stick it to Americans... until we look at your written mechanics. LMAO!!!\n\nNo capital letters, internal comma is missing, hmmmm....\n\nGotta love it!
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So I said to the guy, "Here's what you have to do." \n\nAnd he responded, "What! Just tell me!?" \n\n"You have to start a new paragraph each time a different person speaks," I said. "Start each thing a person says with quotation marks, and end it with proper punctuation." \n\n"What's proper punctuation in this case?" he asked. \n\n"Well," said I, "it's a period or question mark at the end of a quotation if the sentence ends with the quotation or a comma if the sentence continues with more text." \n\n"Follow these rules," she bragged, "and use my writing as an example. I have been writing professionally for 20 years and guarantee that this is all accurate."
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I believe there was a punctuation error in the computer code that launched a Cape Canavarel Saturn rocket that had to be aborted.  Don't recall if it was a hyphen but Ouch!
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The two basic parts to a sentence are the subject and the predicate.\n\nA subject tells who or what the sentence is mostly about (noun or pronoun).\nThe predicate shows action or a state of being (verb).\nA sentence also requires a complete thought.\n\nYour examples all contain two complete thoughts, but only one of them is joined correctly (with a comma and a conjunction) as a compound sentence. (You also need to add a period.)
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Sentence B has the restrictive clause. Restrictive clauses are NOT usually set off by commas, and non-restrictive clauses are usually set off by commas. When speaking, one often pauses a bit before a non-restrictive clause, but not before a restrictive one.
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Very nice; you must have picked up on the hidden clue.\n\nFrankly, it all depends.  I personally am not very found of grammatical rules, as they seem to be inherently limiting.  As far as I am concerned, you can throw the majority of those rules out the window, as long as you can express yourself clearly and be easily understood.   Case in point: Linguists and English professors do NOT usually make great writers, do they?   In principle, of course, one can always make a strong formal English punctuation argument in favor of your choice "b".  But to me "a" looks much "prettier".   So the question is: Should we keep shoving food into our mouths, mindlessly chewing, and promptly swallowing till our stomachs are full, or should we try to eat less, but eat with our eyes and palates too?   I suppose, it all depends on the circumstances and your point of view.   For instance, if you end up in a hospital with a sever case of malnutrition and dehydration, they “ain’t” “gonna” care much about how you are gonna eat or drink, as long as they end up pumping enough liquids and nutrients into you to save your life.   ... The punctuation waters start getting even murkier as more and more people begin to impose their own rules and restrictions on-line.   Ironically-enough (notice I said Ironically-enough and NOT anomalously-enough LOL) take your own example in this here on-line Y!A milieu, for instance.    The Y!A software will automatically add a question mark (i.e. a "?") to the end of every statement posted, no matter what you do, and be it really a question or NOT!  (And still, they dare to complain that some of those questions aren’t exactly questions)!  LOL    Hence, in a Y!A environment at least, both your choices would be forced into a punctually incorrect stratosphere (for "a" would become "lovelorn"??, and "b" would be transformed into "lovelorn?"?) and the only correct choice would appear to be “the initially incorrect one”, namely just “lovelorn”.  … Now, go figure!   LOL     … Yes my friend, even the oracle should strive for anomalism, at times.  :-)
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Hi Todd!  Please allow me to critique these morons who have answered.\n\nroxy: A sentence starts with a capital. A question ends with a question mark.\n\nWTF?: You are trying to hard to not look like a moron by pretending to be a moron. It's not working.\n\nfunkyfresh: There should not be a comma between the word "the" and the quotation marks. Therefore, yes you are.\n\nwldflwr_00: It was a proper sentence. Learn to diagram sentences.\n\nstessie: You are missing punctuation.\n\ncaptain_tenneal: Single quotes (') are used when paraphrasing. Direct quotes, as you did, are done with double quotes, as in "H". Douche.\n\nrsgreenhoe: You are missing punctuation. Also, the correct phrase is "You are like the pot calling the kettle 'black'."\n\nladybug: Contractions require apostrophes. (ie: "coudn't")\n\nmandymae: That's a run-on sentence. Punctuation will help it parse better.\n\nBriLeigh: You have no capitalization at the beginning of a sentence. Also, you have improper use of ellipses. \n\nrogdogg187: Please see my comment to "WTF?".\n\nmsverychocolate: Only one punctuation mark should end a sentence. Also, you have improper capitalization.\n\njacqueleigh1975: Please see my comment to "WTF?".\n\ntotalgitfromwigan: You are a hypocrite. First you put him down with an ad hominem attack, and then procede to castigate him for the same behavior. Also, please see my comment to captain_tenneal about the use of single and double quotes. Also, "p.s." is an abbreviation of "post script" and should have the appropriate punctuation.  Try not to speak in the third person passive ("Trying to improve one's...") as it makes your writing sound weak.  Ideally, you should have a comma between "addressing" and "but".\n\niam4ver: Please see my comment to "WTF?".\n\ntautestvenus4: After flipping your cute sentence the proper direction, I see that you use the word "your" when you should use the contraction "you're" (meaning "you are").\n\nnay: It is spelled "grammar". Also, questions should have question marks (?) at the end of them.\n\nsnowqueen736: You are incorrect. The last item of a list does not require a comma.\n\nmathwizard: Questions require question marks.\n\nnerve recking360: Proper punctuation is lacking in your submssion.  The proper punctation would not make it any more intelligible, I'm afraid.\n\nabby_simmons40: You use the word "your" when you should be using "you're" (meaning "you are"). You use the word "where" when you should be using "were". You also have improper use of punctuation. Sentences require one punctuation mark at the end. "Exep" should be spelled "except".  You should also spell out "first", though I will forgive the obvious typographic error in that sentence. "Really" is not spelled "realy".
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It's "It has everything except cylinders."  You don't want the comma.\nCall it the V-Zero (a play on V-6, V-8, V-10).\n\n"The V-Zero has everything except cylinders."
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After you learn how to punctuate sentences.
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Are you sure you don't mean direct address? That is when you address directly a person or thing and it must be set off from the rest of the sentence by commas.\n\nExamples: MARY, will you please be sure you have finished all your homework!!\n\n                  Will you please be sure, MARY, that you have finished all of your homework!!\n\n                   Will you please be sure that you have finished all of your homework, MARY!!\n\nI hope this helps.\n\nChow!!
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Either with a comma or without a comma; either is correct.
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I see one run on sentence that needs to be split. I also see two others that should be combined into one\n\nThat said, a good writer never pads the piece. The whole idea is to make it as clear & concise as possible. As a writer, the only legitimate way to extend this is to add information.\n\nI just did a search & on the first page I opened & found the answer to your problems - with an "s".. Your info or the web page info is incorrect, one or the other  There was enough other info to expand the reason for the tie.\n\nAfter a quick search, I found additional info & an error you may wish to correct.       This is a much better version than the 3 sentences I wrote earlier, correct? That is what I mean by clear & concise.\n \nYou've done all right so far. just a little more..