...I may or may not be using it on this blog.
The reason is that I could start wondering if that comma isn't supposed to go in front of 'because,' or if this is one of those weird instances where that's okay because you'd be reading it with a pause.
The wondering would turn into worrying, and the worrying would turn into horrible, terrible stress, and ten minutes after putting the comma in front of 'because,' I'd find myself crying on my bathroom floor.
Also, since this is to be read as if I were saying it, and not as if I were writing a formal essay for a class, I will do things like begin sentences with "And," and "AND SO," and "Then." I like starting sentences with these words, and I have to try pretty hard not to do it in papers for school. I think I've done it before, and my professor corrected me, and I tried to argue with him about it. I was defeated, though, and also sad.
SO THERE.
Since I correct everyone on everything, it is pretty ironic and kind of stupid that I would be not absolutely sure that that comma can or can not go in front of that word, but that is how it is. Maybe when school starts, and it hasn't been over a month since I read a book that wasn't about a secret cat society, I'll use proper grammar.
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