Can,Will wrote:
KarishmaB
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in the option D) The Supreme Court has ruled that public universities may collect student activity fees even from students who object to particular activities, so long as the groups given money are chosen without regard to their views.
I have a conceptual doubt here. The first part before comma is itself an independent clause and remaining part of the option choice is also an independent clause then how can we combine two ICs with a comma and so long as?
'so long as' is a subordinating conjunction. The second part after the comma is a dependent clause. When a dependent clause comes at the beginning, it is usually separated from the main clause by a comma. When it comes after the main clause, you normally don't need a comma but it is not unacceptable either.
With an adverbial clause like this one "so long as the groups given money are ...," you may or may not put a comma before it. The use of comma here will not be tested
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