User talk:Loominosity
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Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges
[edit]Dear Loominosity. Thank you very much for inserting the comma (On 20 June 1695 Lorges fell ill -> On 20 June 1695, Lorges fell ill) in the article Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges. I am quite convinced that you are right, but what is the rule? I found that Jean-Luc Doumont (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/effective-writing-13815989/) says: As a rule, insert a comma between the subject of the main clause and whatever comes in front of it, no matter how short, as in "Surprisingly, the temperature did not increase." I once talked to user John Maynard Friedman (a very clever guy) about a case like that and he said "as a general principle, I would always put a comma after the year, as in "On 3 April 1640, Strafford left Ireland", but I don't actually know that this is considered good practice." I do not seem to find such a rule in Strunk or Fowler, but perhaps you do. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 08:37, 10 August 2021 (UTC)