On Thu Jan 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM GMT, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 15.01.2025 19:06, Bernhard Kaindl wrote: > > Fix missing commas after linking adverbs such as currently, fortunately, > > hence, instead, and thus, when used as linking adverbs at the beginning > > of sentences. I saw them with LTeX; other checkers have this rule too. > > I'm unconvinced, and despite Stefano's R-b (Stefano, please don't feel > offended) I'd like this to be commented on by a native speaker.
Not a native speaker, but those are "sentence adverbs" and must indeed have a comma to refer to the whole sentence they preceed. Read them aloud and you'll notice you do pause for a little while. > It is my understanding that commas in such situations are optional. > > Jan A comma may or may not accompany such words depending on their position and use in the sentence, but that doesn't mean it's optional. Some construction have pauses and some don't (sometime meaning different things). In this case I'd say they were definitely missing. Reading that without pausing at those spots is just awkward. My .02 anyway. Cheers, Alejandro
