> You're writing it wrong Adding a comma would be non-standard (“incorrect” if you ask a pedantic grammarian) in conventional English prose. Commas don’t alway

> You're writing it wrong Adding a comma would be non-standard (“incorrect” if you ask a pedantic grammarian) in conventional English prose. Commas don’t always match verbal pauses 1:1. > The part before the pause should be spoken with tone going up, and the part after with tone going down. This is a learned cultural convention, not inherently known at birth. I am sure that within another few months my kid will figure it out. It’s also hard for me to tell sometimes whether he is repeating both because he doesn’t understand that a choice is being offered, or because he wants to repeat strings of words, or because he hasn’t made a choice, or .... He doesn’t know how to say e.g. “neither one; give me the green shirt” or “you decide for me”.