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Re: Too and commas
I may be showing my age but absolutely yes a comma and too.
Debby Odell
Director of Composition, English Dept.
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
email: dodell@mail.uccs,edu
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Susan Rosa wrote:
> We are having a debate here that we cannot find an answer to in any of the
> reference books:
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> If a sentence ends with the word "too," should that "too" be preceded by a
> comma?
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> i.e. We went to the store, too.
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> Opinion is divided here. It seems that people feel that in the past, the
> too was supposed to be preceded by the comma...but now it is optional.
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> Any opinions? (I know that in the scope of things this is not an urgent
> problem, but your help is always appreciated!)
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