Question

Do i have ti add any commas or anything to the following sentence:

Truth seems to involve stories that never happened and seem to entail more truth than actual events.

Answer 1

yeah..you add a comma here: Truth seems to involve stories that never happened, and seem to entail more truth than actual events.

Answer 2

thankyou very much

Answer 3

hey, no sweat

Answer 4

There should not be a comma there

The rule with a conjunction (the word ''and") and the words that follow it, is that you use a comma if the words after the conjunction could stand alone as a full sentence.

In this case "seem to involve more truth than actual events" is a phrase and could not stand alone as a sentence. (It has no subject to act on the verb "involve") so you do not use a comma in that case.

(If it read "and stories seem to involve more truth than actual events" then you would have a subject (stories) and a verb (involve) - and because that could stand alone as a sentence, in that case you would use a comma.

does this make sense? this rule comes up ALL the time in writing, so it's a good idea to learn it. do you understand the explanation?