The comma is not necessary because what follows is a dependent clause.
Kari Anderson

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Date: 04/12/2011 06:10PM
Subject: Punctuation Question

I have a doctoral student who produces sentences like the following:

"This quatrain cannot be read in isolation at all, because the syntax
is
inherent and incomplete on its own."

My question is not a search for whatever he meant to say but is about
his punctuation:  the comma.  Comments are welcome.

T. J.

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