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§ 8. Greetings and leave-taking in indirect speech.

When converting greetings and leave-taking into indirect speech, we use such verbs as to greet, to welcome, etc.

She said to them, “How do you do?”

She greeted them.

He said to them, “Happy to see you at my place.”

He welcomed them.

He said to them, “Good-bye!”

He bade them good-bye.

He said to them, “Good night!”

He wished them good night.

Chapter XX

PUNCTUATION

§ 1. The stops show the grammatical relations between words, phrases, clauses, and sentences; besides they serve to emphasize particular words and to indicate intonation. Thus the use of stops is mainly regulated by syntactical relations: the structure of the sentence (simple, compound, complex), the function of the word or word-group in a sentence or clause, the way coordinate clauses are linked, and the types of subordinate clauses.

THE SIMPLE SENTENCE

To separate different parts of the sentence, the following rules are observed:

§ 2. With homogeneous members either a comma or no stop whatever is used.

1. A comma is used to separate homogeneous members joined asyndetically.

The punishment cell was a dark, damp, filthy hole. (Voynich)

She shook her head, dried the dishes herself, sat down with some mending.

(Cronin)

Her breathing was slow, tortured. (Maltz)

2. A comma is used after each of several homogeneous members if the last is joined by the conjunction and.

The captain, the squire, and I were talking matters over in the cabin.

(Stevenson)

He lighted his cigarette, said good night, and went on. (London)

N o t e. — The comma before the last of the homogeneous members can be

omitted.

3. If two homogeneous members are joined by the conjunction and, no comma is used.

She nodded and smiled. (Heym)

He went“ out heavily and shut the door behind him. (Abrahams)

4. If there are several homogeneous members and each of them is joined to the preceding by the conjunction and or nor, they may or may not be separated by commas.

Em’ly, indeed, said little all the evening; but she looked, and listened, and her

face got animated, and she was charming. (Dickens)

She was not brilliant, nor witty, nor wise overmuch, nor extraordinary

handsome. (Thackeray)

5. A comma is used to separate homogeneous members joined by the conjunction but and the correlative conjunction not only... but also.

He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.

(O. Henry)

Not only hope, but confidence has been restored. (Nesfield)

6. A comma is used to separate homogeneous members going in pairs.

Between halts and stumbles, jerks and lurches, locomotion had at times

seemed impossible. (London)

They had forgotten time and place, and life and death. (Voynich)

§ 3. With detached members of the sentence either a comma or a dash is used.

1. To separate a loose apposition a comma or a dash is used. The latter is less common.

He, Martin Eden, was a better man than that fellow. (London)

The old gentleman, her father, was always dabbling in speculation.

(Thackeray)

To think that Johnnie — my best friend — should have acted so meanly.

(Bennett)

2. To separate all types of detached adverbial modifiers a comma is used.

The Chuzzlewit family was, in the very earliest times, closely connected with

agricultural interest. (Dickens)

It being then just dinner-time, we went first into the great kitchen. (Dickens)

Away went George, his nerves quivering with excitement at the news so long

looked for. (Thackeray)

Mr. Micawber sat in his elbow-chair, with his eyebrows raised. (Dickens)

Old Jolyon had risen, and, cigar in mouth, went to inspect the group.

(Galsworthy)

He drew his hands away, shivering. (Voynich)

Poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous. (Thackeray)

The people, seeing my empty carriage, would rush for it. (Jerome)

3. To separate detached attributes a comma is used.

There are some truths, cold, bitter, tainting truths. (Dickens)

Here we have a remark, at once consistent, clear, natural. (Dickens)

4. To separate detached objects a comma is used.

Maggie, with a large book on her lap, shook her heavy hair. (Eliot)

But instead of the print, he seemed to see his wife. (Galsworthy)

Sometimes a dash is used.

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