13. Properly speaking, there can be no chance in our affairs.
14. But the enemies of tyranny--their path leads to the scaffold.
15. She (oh, the artfulness of the woman!) managed the matter extremely
well.
retreat | began
=========|=======
\later
\---\
\ day
\-------
\A
16. A day later (Oct. 19, 1812) began the fatal retreat of the Grand Army,
from Moscow.
See Lesson 35.
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LESSON 45.
COMPOSITION--INDEPENDENT WORDS AND PHRASES.
+COMMA--RULE.--Words and phrases independent or nearly so are set off by
the comma.+
+Remark+.--Interjections, as you have seen, are usually followed by the
exclamation point; and _there_, used merely to introduce, is never set off
by the comma. When the break after pleonastic expressions is slight, as in
(5), Lesson 44, the comma is used; but, if it is more abrupt, as in (14),
the dash is required. If the independent expression can be omitted without
affecting the sense, it may be enclosed within marks of parenthesis, as in
(15) and (16). (For the uses of the dash and the marks of parenthesis, see
Lesson 148.)
Words and phrases nearly independent are those which, like _however, of
course, indeed, in short, by the bye, for instance_, and _accordingly_, do
not modify a word or a phrase alone, but rather the sentence as a whole;
as, Lee did not, _however_, follow Washington's orders.
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