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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I was told that a clause over three words (at the beginning of the sentence) gets a comma. A clause under three words does not. Of course, my HS English teacher was a biker bitch, so I have no idea if that's correct...
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This is probably outable, since I can't imagine that there were many other teachers that did this, but Mr. Cullinan made us memorize 16 comma rules and 4 semicolon rules in ninth grade. We had to recite them orally on command throughout the year, and we were tested on them weekly.
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