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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
abstruse in the sense of recondite author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • retired Random House copy chief • he/him/his substack.com/@benjamindreyer
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Copyediting FAQ Q. When do you set a comma before "too," and when don't you? A. Whichever you choose, the other way will look better.

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SNsannewman.bsky.social

Unless the copy editor corrects it to the other way, in which case your way will still look right.

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JJjoyner.bsky.social

Sadly, I think I've gotten dumber on these things because of technology. Grammarly, for example, routinely makes suggestions for changes that don't comport with what I was taught decades ago and I vaccilate between incorporating its suggestions and ignoring them.

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DRdarosenthal.bsky.social

as i've aged the commas have all fallen away

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Too true

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KHkatwithsword.bsky.social

Too real.

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GJjonssonville.bsky.social

The one after "so" is like this for me

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DRdianarchambers.bsky.social

I continue to agonize over that. This one has the comma, the last one didn’t

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LRlaurairock.bsky.social

This is freeing

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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
abstruse in the sense of recondite author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • retired Random House copy chief • he/him/his substack.com/@benjamindreyer
16.9k followers826 following25.2k posts