tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610472134237176223.post7120060784706742667..comments2023-05-14T03:35:42.105-04:00Comments on LangLing: English languageLangLinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326820272652746118noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610472134237176223.post-58729713814457184192016-01-10T20:37:08.904-05:002016-01-10T20:37:08.904-05:00The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)...The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) revels only 18 incidents of “…, and, apparently, …” in the entire corpus data for syntax. Such a few in number for quantity in (COCA) usually indicates the sign for a warning as to its creditability. According to many popular and respectable grammar books, the function words are not modified, but the half of those 18 cases in COCA sounds perfectly natural for their best. Any explanation in descriptive grammar?<br /><br />Your second paragraph also indicates questionable 2 commas, separating first a comparative conjunction ‘as’ and then a subordinating conjunction ‘as’. Any grammatical explanation why the first ‘as’ is not there together? <br /><br />Some years ago you said that you were working on manuscripts for publishing books of one of which to be descriptive grammar of English as your specialty. So I thought I should post these questions. <br />Kim Wisehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_of_speech#Open_and_closed_classesnoreply@blogger.com