Would you please let me know if you think the following are punctuated
correctly.


1.  We went shopping in Memphis last week and bought several things for our
new home.

(Note that there is no comma because there are not two independent clauses;
however, my students tend to put a comma before *and* whether the sentence
is compound or complex).

2.  While driving to work this morning, I stopped to buy gasoline.

3.  I stopped to buy gasoline while driving to work this morning.

(is it *generally* correct that a dependent clause at the beginning of the
sentence is followed by a comma, but a dependent clause at the end of the
sentence is NOT preceded by a comma?)

4.  Since the programmers will be here soon, we are setting up the
computers; and we are hoping to have the network online before noon.

(Is it correct to use a semicolon before *and* since a comma is already used
elsewhere in the sentence?)


Thank you for your help.

Sandra





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