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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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I think your biker-bitch teacher was messin' with youse guys. (I actually had a candidate use the words "youse guys" in an interview -- and I still pulled for him to get the job, because he was otherwise charming and seemed as though he would be hard working. However, I lost that battle. He apparently used similar phrases in other interviews at the firm.)
If that axiom your biker-bitch teacher taught you were true, you wouldn't need a comma after "however" or "nonetheless" and those types of words, where clearly a pause is required (although I suppose one would say that one word doesn't a clause make; but then why limit the axiom to "fewer than three words" and just say "two words"? Hmmmm?).
