Question

Hello,
can anyone assist me with this question on placing a comma. Do I place a comma between stakeholders and this. The sentence is : All members of society are the stakeholders this process is called community involvement.

Answer 1

yes you have to place a comma after and
we often use a comma when we link two statements with and, but or or.

Answer 2

I believe, in this case you have a situation which requires a semicolon. "All members of society area the stakeholders" is an independent clause and so is "this process is called community development".

Answer 3

Yes, you can use a semicolon between "stakeholders" and "this," to conjoin those two closely related independent clauses. You would then have one construction of what amounts to two sentences.

You can also use a period, dividing those two independent clauses out into separate sentences.

You would not use a comma. A comma cannot divide two independent clauses. (If there were an "and" there, between "stakeholders" and "this," that would be another story. You would use a comma before the "and" in this case.)