Conjunctions are one of the most difficult topics that students encounter. Teachers spend a long time trying to explain what this part of speech is and how to handle it.
So, conjunctions are an independent part of speech that connects two sentences with each other. But it's not that simple.
After all, there is one more thing that absolutely every person needs to know: which conjunctions are preceded by a comma.
According to the rule, a comma is placed before all conjunctions in complex sentences.
But there are some nuances.
If there are particles in front of the union "only", "only", "exclusively"(and others similar to them) you can safely skip the comma. She's not needed there. As, for example, in this sentence:
“I only smiled when I was sure no one was watching.”
You can also skip the comma when there are words before the conjunction such as “especially”, “that is”, “namely”, “in particular”(and others similar to them). For example, take the following sentence:
“There was always a desire to live in his eyes, especially when he saw me.”
Let's list these points:
“I equally loved peaches, grapes, and apricots”;
“Lizonka could easily discern the makings of a great artist and ability for music”;
“Where did you see him and what did he say?”;
“You need to add salt and sprinkle the dish with pepper.”
Depending on the meaning, a complex conjunction can be divided into several parts and separated by commas. For example:
Some conjunctions always break apart and are separated by commas. For example: “such as”, “more than”, “better than” and others (a comma before “not that” and “not that” is not needed).
A complex conjunction is separated by a comma if:
A comma is not needed when a complex conjunction comes before the main clause.
Examples of placing commas before some conjunctions:
Conjunctions are a tricky part of speech. You need to be careful and careful with her. That is why this topic deserves special attention.
There are many rules in Russian punctuation that are not easy to understand. After all, punctuation marks not only define the boundaries of phrases and sentences, but also help convey the feelings and emotions of the people reproducing them. Whether it’s worth highlighting “primarily” with commas or not, we’ll talk about it in this article.
To understand whether commas are needed to highlight the word “mostly”, it is necessary to determine its meaning and grammatical characteristics.
“Predominantly”, that is, in dominance over others. For example, “He chooses mostly teddy bears,” that is, when choosing from a variety of toys, he chooses bears and not anything else.
From a morphological point of view, it can be noted that the word “predominantly” is an adverb formed from the adjective “predominant” in a suffixal way.
This adverb is similar to words such as: certainly, indeed, which, in addition to one of the members of the sentence, can be introductory words.
“His leadership in our team is unquestionable.” Leadership (what?) is unconditional. In this sentence, the analyzed word is part of a compound nominal predicate, expressed by a short neuter adjective.
“Of course, he is the leader of our team.” In this sentence, the analyzed word does not answer the question, therefore, is not one of the members of the sentence, is used to indicate confidence, and is easily omitted without changing the meaning. Maybe highlight “predominantly” with commas?
Introductory words are expressions used to give additional meaning to a phrase. They are not members of the sentence; in writing they are separated, separated by commas on both sides. They can be expressed by words of different parts of speech, phrases, both stable and changing.
Introductory words are used in several cases:
When formalizing the train of thought (firstly, on the one hand, therefore).
When expressing emotions, confidence, uncertainty (fortunately, unfortunately, of course, without a doubt).
When indicating the source of speaking (according to words, according to a message, in other words).
In case of attracting attention (imagine, see, know).
When indicating the measure (at least the largest, without exaggeration).
The word we are analyzing does not have any of the above, there is no need to highlight it “primarily” with commas in writing. It cannot be an introductory word.
It is correct not to separate “primarily” with commas, as is the case with other exception words, such as: “decisively”, “approximately”, “exclusively”.
She wanted mainly a warm relationship.
His actions were strongly rejected.
To make the pie you need approximately five apples.
He does this solely for her safety.
“Predominantly” is an adverb, therefore, in a sentence, as a rule, it acts as an adverb. In some cases, circumstances tend to become isolated.
Is it possible to highlight “primarily” with commas, following this punctogram?
Circumstances stand out in two cases:
Determining the additional meaning of time: “Today, at nine o’clock in the evening, my favorite film will be shown on TV.” When will the film be shown? Today. And when exactly? At nine o'clock in the evening.
Determining the additional meaning of the place: “Tomorrow I’m going to the village, to my parents.” Where am I going? To the village. Where exactly? To my parents.
Isolated circumstances have a clarifying meaning of place and time. Each subsequent one will answer the question “when exactly”, “where exactly”.
The word we are interested in is not a circumstance of time or place, and therefore cannot be isolated.
Or what?
particle
Identified by punctuation marks, usually commas.
Why have you, holy fathers, eaten too much henbane?, or what? M. Bulgakov, Running. Remember, or something? youth, the one that flew by? S. Yesenin, Rash, talyanka, ringing, rash, talyanka, boldly!.. Because I'm from the north, or what? // That the moon there is a hundred times larger, // No matter how beautiful Shiraz is, // It is no better than the expanses of Ryazan. // Because I'm from the north or something? S. Yesenin, you are my Shagane, Shagane!.. Did he live with her or something? three or four years and that means it will happen. M. Zoshchenko, Psychological history.
Dictionary-reference book on punctuation. - M.: Reference and information Internet portal GRAMOTA.RU. V. V. Svintsov, V. M. Pakhomov, I. V. Filatova. 2010 .
Synonyms:whatever- whatever...
Well- Well … Spelling dictionary-reference book
what then- what... Spelling dictionary-reference book
something- something … Spelling dictionary-reference book
Well- what... Spelling dictionary of the Russian language
WHAT Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
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What- (1) WHAT (1) [what] what, what, what, with what, about what, pronoun. 1. interrogative. What object (thing), what phenomenon? What is it? What are you waiting for? What's wrong with you? What are you dissatisfied with? What (follows) from this? “What new will Moscow show me?” Griboyedov. "What… … Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
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