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Whether is a conjunction that joins words or other parts of a sentence.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
The mark was a hybrid between a comma and a colon, and its purpose was to prolong a pause or create a more distinct separation between parts of a sentence.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
Though Manuzio invented the comma in order to separate parts of a sentence, it can tie words together as efficiently as it keeps them apart.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
Unity is that property of style which keeps all parts of a sentence in connection with the principal thought and logically subordinate to it.
From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
In massing the parts of a sentence for the purpose of emphasizing some idea, a writer has not entire freedom.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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