Can or must there be a comma there?
The local anesthesia stops working after about 2-3 hours.
or with a comma:
The local anesthesia stops working after about 2-3 hours.
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Da DARF no comma to 😉
A comma always initiates a side sentence or marks a list.
Do you mean that after a comma, there’s always a sideline? Apart from the lists…
As a rough rule of thumb, you can say that.
For example:
The local anesthesia, which is administered, stops acting after 3 hours.
Okay, then I was unhappy. Mea culpa. Just wanted to formulate a crisp quick rule of thumb. If I had to differentiate better. Thanks for the hint.
I always have my difficulties and I am very cautious to point this out as universal. You had written “always.” Students and learners take this for a bare coin and then go around the counter-examples…
That’s why I meant “big rule of thumb,” so to have a first idea where a comma belongs.
This is not true in principle.
The auxiliary charge can also be first, then the comma, then the main set.
No comma in front of easy too-infinitive!
Without comma
without comma