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Post by Otaku on Jan 22, 2008 7:36:10 GMT 8
So, it seems the textbooks standardly teach comma usage for the three grammar points:
1. If you I to the store, I will buy natto. 2. When I go to the store, I will buy natto. 3. Because I'm going to the store, I will buy natto.
As much as I'm against the third grammar point, it is taught grammatically correct, with the exception of how it is taught in Total English's English textbook. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Total English teaches 'because' while using a dependent clause for an example: "Because she wanted to study English."
Getting to the point of this post, I asked my JTEs if they taught prepositional phrases in the same manner. For example, "Inside the box, there is a toy." While I understand it is more common to say "There is a toy inside the box," the first example using the comma is grammatically correct.
My question to all of you is why do the textbooks teach three different grammar points that focus on commas but they don't teach prepositional-phrase-comma sentences?
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