grammar help?
Should i add a comma before AS in this sentence?
If prices rise, people will shop elsewhere and as a result, the store will lose its customers.
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no your commas are correctly located and make sense.
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i don’t believe you put a comma after ‘if prices rise’ since it is not a complete thought? and if I were to punctuate I would do this…. If prices rise people will shop elsewhere, and, as a result, the store will lose its customers. Or just get rid of the ‘and’ completely which may sound better, make 2 sentences, or do a colon thing there.
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If prices rise, people will shop elsewhere; and as a result, the store will lose its customers.
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you could replace the semicolon after elsewhere with a comma. Generally, if there are a bunch of commas in the first independent clause, you should use a semicolon.
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You have more than 1 way to re-write this. When you use the word “if” as a condition the word “then” should follow at some point.
Like this: If prices rise then people will shop elsewhere, resulting in customer loss for the store.
Or this: If prices rise, people will shop elsewhere; as a result the store will lose its customers.
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this is how the sentence should read: “If prices rise, people will shop elsewhere, and, as a result the store will lose its customers.” this is coming from a college education.
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oopsie is very wrong. ‘if prices rise’ is a prepositional phrase therefore, definitely needs a comma after it and to put a comma before and after the word ‘and’ is a huge mistake.
sentence is correct as it, dont change it
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As you have used the conjunction “and”, I don’t think so.
I mean that you do not have to add comma before as.
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yes
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nope no need !!!
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No….
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