Quillwitch
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When do you use a comma before "as if"? or after After all- My work is riddled with as ifs!
Here is a sentence from my work. It´s really long and I'm not sure if it takes a comma.
His signature red hair that in other circumstances would have been neatly combed back in its place was swirling madly in the wind as if his hair were an external reflection of the uncontrolled emotions in his brain.
AND
“Yes, I have,” said Jones, as if he were talking about making tea
AND
He raised Phinneas´s hand to the sky as if he had just won a boxing match.
AND HOW ABOUT THIS?
After all, he was practically royalty.
After all, your father is a very important man, and that makes you--”
THANKS
Here is a sentence from my work. It´s really long and I'm not sure if it takes a comma.
His signature red hair that in other circumstances would have been neatly combed back in its place was swirling madly in the wind as if his hair were an external reflection of the uncontrolled emotions in his brain.
AND
“Yes, I have,” said Jones, as if he were talking about making tea
AND
He raised Phinneas´s hand to the sky as if he had just won a boxing match.
AND HOW ABOUT THIS?
After all, he was practically royalty.
After all, your father is a very important man, and that makes you--”
THANKS