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Pretty3
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Help!!
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Hi,
Is there a comma after the word immediately in the beginning of a sentence??
e.g.
Immediately after the last day of the week , they went to the mall.
Best regards,
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3 Dec 2010
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donapeter
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Immediately, after the last day of the week , they went to the mall.
"after the last day of the week"- this is an explanation, it can be omitted, it is called :apposition
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3 Dec 2010
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almaz
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I have to say that the sentence - with or without punctuation - doesn �t actually make a lot of sense. Can you really go somewhere immediately after a day? As soon as the clock chimes midnight? The use of immediately here suggests �without a pause or delay �. You might say that Monday follows immediately after Sunday, but other than that...?
The expression �immediately after � without a comma is a perfectly acceptable adverb/conjunction.
Immediately after the last class of the week, they went to the mall/They went to the mall immediately after the last class of the week.
So, the structure is fine as it is. By the way, using �immediately � on its own as a conjunction tends to be used more in British English ( �Immediately they finished their last class, they went to the shopping centre �). |
3 Dec 2010
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