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Is there a grammer issue here?
Posted: 17 May 2023, 15:08
by Roshni Singh30
"I was pleasantly surprised when except for a few points where I disagreed with the author, I enjoyed the book."
When I first wrote this sentence, I put a comma after "when" . But then Grammerly as well as some other online grammer checking tools corrected me and suggested I remove the comma. So here I am now. Please settle this.
Re: Is there a grammer issue here?
Posted: 09 Jun 2023, 19:28
by MsH2k
Roshni Singh30 wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 15:08
"I was pleasantly surprised when except for a few points where I disagreed with the author, I enjoyed the book."
When I first wrote this sentence, I put a comma after "when" . But then Grammerly as well as some other online grammer checking tools corrected me and suggested I remove the comma. So here I am now. Please settle this.
It may be too late, but I agree with your initial inclination to put a comma after “when.” The phrase “except for a few points where I disagreed with the author” seems to be a nonessential element and would therefore be enclosed in commas. I don’t think the grammar checker recognized the subtlety of the core meaning of your sentence: you were pleasantly surprised that you enjoyed the book.
BTW, QuillBot agreed with us.
And here is a link with more information about using commas in this case:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writ ... ments.html