Infinitive phrase here

[Eddie88]

An absolute phrase is sometimes added to the end of sentence to add a bit more information, often to make the sentence more interesting or descriptive, sometimes to add an important (and related) point.


1)Why is there no 'and' following the last infinitive phrase? Style? Or is there another reason?


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[Marius Hancu]

Not clear. Write how that would show up.

Was the original:

often to make the sentence more interesting or descriptive, sometimes to add an important (and) related point.

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That is correct, but you can have the and used too, however the meanings are not exactly the same. Matter of logic and precedence of adjectives.

[Eddie88]

That is correct, but you can have the and used too, however the meanings are not exactly the same.

I must say that you have done this twice now. You have used a comma before however, where a semi colon is needed. I'm sure you know you've made an error, but I thought I'd just let you know, since this is an English forum :)

Um, I'm unsure if I understand your answer. I'm asking why is there no 'and' joining the final item in the list? That is, there are three infinitive phrases, and the last one has no 'and' before it: ",and sometimes..."

Do you think 'and' is omitted for effect?

Thanks, again.

[Marius Hancu]

I assume you mean the bolded and here:

An absolute phrase is sometimes added to the end of sentence to add a bit more information, often to make the sentence more interesting or descriptive, (and) sometimes to add an important (and related) point.

It's optional. If you don't have "and" there's no closure, there's more open-endedness to the sentence.

[OddThomas]

Literary license allows one to leave out the final and in a series. It is unexpected, and if done repeatedly can become tiresome and annoying.We went to the movies, went roller-blading, got ice cream, came home.
Such a sentence is fine. So is We went to the movies, and went roller-blading, and got ice cream, and came home.
The latter sentence feels a bit childlike, however, and better writers avoid both styles unless striving for a deliberate effect. Their routine use is very poor form.

Caesar wrote Veni, vidi, vici, not Veni, vidi, et vici. No one gave him a hard time about it, though he did say, Et tu, Brute? when there was only one assassin. Now that I think about it, perhaps he just had trouble with math, not grammar. :)