I’m not sure they still teach the FANBOYS system - at least not as I learned it: a “use this, not that” prescription for tightening sentence structure.
A quick DuckDuckGo search suggests they are now, and perhaps always have been, used in conjunction with commas. Which, frankly, makes my skin crawl.
“She was tired, and she needed to eat.”
“It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.”
Evil. Great Evil.
Perhaps I’m caviling against flabby sentences rather than flawed punctuation but I maintain that the construction reliably signals the former.
I’m not sure they still teach the FANBOYS system - at least not as I learned it: a “use this, not that” prescription for tightening sentence structure.
A quick DuckDuckGo search suggests they are now, and perhaps always have been, used in conjunction with commas. Which, frankly, makes my skin crawl.
“She was tired, and she needed to eat.”
“It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.”
Evil. Great Evil.
Perhaps I’m caviling against flabby sentences rather than flawed punctuation but I maintain that the construction reliably signals the former.