WHILE, union

Relative clauses joined by the union "at the time (,) as" are distinguished (or separated) by commas. In this case, the union can be entirely included in the subordinate clause (and not be separated by a comma), but it can also be divided (in this case, the comma is placed between the parts of the union, before the word "how"). For factors affecting punctuation, see App. 3 .

He was married to a poor noblewoman who died in childbirth, while he was in a field. A. Pushkin, Young lady-peasant. It's funny to me to remember how much the three of us smelled like lipstick while we started down the stairs. L. Tolstoy, Childhood. She was even annoyed at her because she had just recovered. while a letter was sent. L. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

If the subordinate clause of a complex sentence comes before the main clause, the comma between the parts of the union "while" is usually not put (putting a comma is acceptable, but such punctuation is considered obsolete).

While we sat for whole hours on the fence, peering into the greenish water, from the depths of the tub now and then these strange creatures rose in flocks ... V. Korolenko, Paradox.

1. Questions: adverbial tenses answer questions When? how long? since when? How long?

2. Means of communication: adverbial clauses are attached to the main clause unions: when, until, until, before, as soon as, as, suddenly, just, while, since, as long as, as and etc.

Compound unions since, as long as, as long as, as long as, before and others can fully perform the function of the union. However, depending on the meaning and logical stress, the compound union can be divided into two parts (the subordinate clause in this case is after the main one, in the middle of the main one). The first part is part of the main sentence and is a demonstrative word - a circumstance of time: at that time, as far as, since then, until then, before and etc.; the second part of the compound union (as) remains in the subordinate clause and independently performs the function of a subordinating union. The comma in this case is placed once - in the middle of the compound union.

For general rules for dividing a compound union into a demonstrative word and a simple subordinating union, see clause 2.4 Punctuation marks in a complex sentence with one subordinate clause.

[When?] After four hours of duty at Stepan's bedside had passed, Ivan Ivanovich departed in spirit.(Kopyaeva).

(after- union).

And even after[When?], as the poems were printed, he returns to them again and again(Chukovsky).

[decree. sl., ( How- union).

3. Place in the offer: subordinate places can be after the main clause, before the main clause, in the middle of the main clause.

[When?] When I was younger I couldn't write through a single chapter(Fadeev).

(When- union).

, (Bye- union).

Note!

When in the subordinate tense it is a union, and not a union word, as in a subordinate attributive or in an explanatory clause.

Compare: [When?] When the impatient ones calmed down, I sat down comfortably(Telpugov) - subordinate time; When- union; The moment has come[Which?], When you have to say goodbye- attributive clause; When- union word.

2.2. Subclauses that refer to one word in the main clause

2.3. Subclauses that refer to the entire main clause

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Compound Sentences with “while”

• Wavell and O'Connor knew How fight in the desert at that time How the Italians obviously knew only that How camp in the desert.
• Having won, the Japanese, however, lost for time siege 58,000 men, at that time How Russian losses amounted to 31,000.
• In time takeoff, I took a seat behind Ray, at that time How he helped Dig.
• In my time the Cossack branch consisted of about 150 junkers, at that time How in our so-called squadron there were 105 cadets.
• Zaal has found time laugh at our strange prey, at that time How the train was full of gold and silver.
• It would never occur to anyone, for example, in the summer time dry lamb, then time How autumn is a common thing.
• About the same time I How then sat next to the entrance to Cathay during time show.
• At that time How we risk our lives, you spend yours daily time for useless pursuits.
• At that time How all this should have happened in a peaceful time and with the most friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union, towards this new system.
• To kill time, the hunter learned everything time sleep and How snake, rose only when necessary.
• Everything from me time waiting for a miracle, and I already knew that if in the near future time I will not show this miracle, they will attack me, How dogs on the bone.
• How at the father's time holidays, and grandfather at school time I worked on the farm in my spare time time.
• Time stretched out How it happens in time accidents.
• It was time concentration of thought time enhanced reading and enrichment of the stock of their knowledge, time intensive literary work.
• At that time attitude to sports was extremely serious, although such conditions, How currently time, of course, was not.
• In time consideration of this task time from time to time I felt on myself the curious look of one or the other.
• At the same time mother constantly grumbled that the Tiger was about to turn nineteen and that it was time bring your wife home.
• Fearing that he will not be able to contain his feelings during time speeches, Byron wrote his speech and memorized it, How in time performances at Harrow.
• In it time Leonid writes a play Time Good Intentions” for the graduation performance of the Shchukin School.
• Nina Berberova recalled the episode How Olya How she said: “And you see: in your time did not marry, and in general, everything is not How everyone has".
• Showed her How take measurements, How make patterns, How cut, How try on, How throw loops and everything else you need to know.
• How and in Karabakh How and in Sumgayit, How and in Baku How and in Osh How and in Ferghana, How and in Tiraspol, How and in Tbilisi How and in Tskhinvali.
• flies time: before you have time to smoke a cigar and read to your heart's content the latest French novel, How it's already dark and it's over time evening cleaning.
• The same picture is seen in How Freud spent time at home or at time holidays.
• How They didn't have ideals How they grew up How won and lost How joked and How drank How were friends and enemies.
• Not in this time, How we experienced in time my ministry, it was possible to calmly study and then transform the police.
• At this point, the clock stops and time starts to flicker: "Look, time flickers How mouse".
• After some time returned the bread card, and, How were expressed in time from the high stands, life has become more fun.
• People at that time received Jesus Christ How king, How greatest politician, How new hope, but did not honor Him How God.
• They are into it time visited my grandmother, and that's all time played in a huge How it seemed to them that the house was hiding.
• He understands: time speech ends, comes time actions.
• I, How Margulies from Time Forward, can't trust such a simple mechanism, How watch, such a precious thing, How time.
• Therefore, the current time he considers exclusively How time colossal opportunities.
• Hussein, How politician, How ruler, How Muslim, How reformer and How nationalist, was forced to heed their call.
• In time services all time was next to scarce foods, drinks, cigarettes.
• It's come again time raging crowd, time streets, time speakers.
• I remember, How in time records, during the break, we played popular at the time time jazz melodies.
• At the same time he couldn't stand it when he saw someone's despondency, and that's all time tried to cheer us up.
• Yes, everything should be time: time build temples, time travel and time raise children and enjoy grandchildren.
• He is everything time was turned inward and at the same time unprotected How in the circus arena.
• At that time I have lost many, whom for a long time time considered friends, they stopped calling one by one and at least How-to communicate.
• I came to my brother's class How to your home, anytime time, even in time lessons.
• In time cruises in Scandinavia, the atmosphere on the Hohenzollern was much more pleasant than in time other voyages.
• And in time flight, and time stay in foreign territory in such an anxious time.
• All this took time, A time we only had it in the evening, after dark, and then we could only think about getting enough sleep.
• Krishnamurti's childhood is described as How time maturation of the great meditative gift, then How time doubt.
• able to write and How northerner, and How Block, and so How wrote at that time for children, the authors of expensive books with golden edges.
• Time calls these people, they come, they form time, A time shapes them.
• And I'm shy when I'm all time they ask: " How you feel How health?" How, How!
• The truth is, I still can't stop wondering How always takes a long time time in time"fights".
• And again, How and in time service as a submarine officer on a nuclear missile carrier, I stopped noticing the official time, How life burden.
• Subsequently, I shot a lot and successfully from various types of weapons, How in time service in the army and time numerous hunts.
• Making money is just as legal in time war, How and in peaceful time.
• In time food we were entertained by preachers, and during time sleep was awakened by night watchmen.
• In time war, How and in peaceful time, the event that didn't happen is often more important than the many events that did.
• Because here time such How once it has come time.
• Specifying that the highest point of the tide in the dark time day will be at 10 o'clock, he ordered to wake him up at this time and went to bed.
• One day I remember How ran 400 meters time interscholastic race finals and How oh something time walked shoulder to shoulder with another very fast guy.
• In Spain at that time trains were running How we have in time civil war, then it goes, then it stands, it is not known why.
• How-sometimes during non-working time I was walking down the street, and I met two former convicts, in different time who were in my group.
• We have everything time between the people and the government How some kind of gap, everything time appeared How oh the tension.
• After all, the arrangement and receipt of a lifting allowance will require some time and this time necessary How to live?
• But time flew fast because I am everything time was on the road and time spoke.
• I am sure that time but only time will judge everything and shed light on the relationship between the head of state and one of his closest associates.
• From these last to then time medicine was considered the most profitable, How she is considered her even in our time.
• In peaceful time in time exercise boat takes a certain position, so How enemy actions are known in advance.
• I remember How you said that you need me just in time self-calculation: at the most boring for me time!
• Her father hired her time worker, but soon announced to his daughter that she time work, so How She is an adult, she has to do everything herself.
• In everything time of her life with me I could never beg her to sit in my presence, and How soon I will go into the room, she is in everything time stood.
• This time while they put on a free dance, remained in memory How time constant fun.
• At present time almost no single part is made in the same way or from the same material, How at that time.
• At that time, How I now understand that it was indecent for a woman, and even a party member, to spend time around the children.
• It was pitch dark outside, but behind the front line everything time flashes of light were seen How in time grand fireworks.
• Even the done role is everything time polished, all time How- something is changing.
• He prayed at the strictly prescribed time, took his place in time worship in the mosque and listened attentively to the readers of the Koran.
• Her contribution to the work of Viktor Jansson was enormous and at the same time time nameless and invisible How the labor of most women time.
• Time from time to time I sink into unconsciousness, time drowsiness I see war dreams.
• A contemporary wrote about the Janissaries: “They are just as dangerous in peacetime. time, How weak in time war."
• Time persuasive speeches have passed, it has come time real political actions and programs, as well as politicians who can work together.
• One time we seem to meet every day, then I long time wrote to Lally in Scotland.

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A comma before the union HOW is placed in three cases:

1. If this union is included in phrases that are close in role in the sentence to the introductory words, for example: AS A RULE, AS A CONSEQUENCE, AS ALWAYS, AS NOW, AS ON DESIGN, AS FOR EXAMPLE, AS NOW: In the morning, as if on purpose, it began to rain;

2. If this union connects parts of a complex sentence, for example: We watched for a long time how the coals of the fire smoldered;

3. If the sentence contains a circumstance expressed by a comparative turnover that begins with the union HOW, for example: Her voice rang like the smallest bell;

Please note: if the sentence continues after turnovers with the union HOW, then you need to put another comma at the end of the turnover. For example: Below, like a mirror, the water shone; We watched for a long time how the coals of the fire were smoldering, unable to tear ourselves away from this spectacle.

Turnovers with the union AS are not separated in five cases:

1. If the turnover with the union HOW in the sentence acts as a circumstance of the course of action, for example: The path twisted like a snake. In such cases, the turnover with HOW can be replaced by an adverb (PO-SNAKE) or a noun in the instrumental case (SNAKE). Unfortunately, it is not always possible to distinguish the circumstances of the mode of action with complete certainty from the circumstances of comparison.

2. If the turnover with the union HOW is part of the phraseological unit, for example: During dinner she sat on pins and needles;

3. If the turnover with the union HOW is part of the predicate and the sentence without such a turnover does not have a complete meaning, for example: She behaves like a hostess;

4. If the union HOW stands between the subject and the predicate (without this union, a dash would have to be put there), for example: The lake is like a mirror;

5. If the comparative turnover is preceded by the negation of NOT or particles COMPLETELY, PERFECTLY, ALMOST, LIKE, EXACTLY, EXACTLY, SIMPLY, for example: They do everything not like neighbors or Her hair curls exactly like her mother's;

In addition, it must be remembered that the word HOW can be part of the compound union HOW ... SO AND ... or SO AS, as well as revolutions SINCE, FROM THE TIME, AS WELL, AS LESS (MORE) POSSIBLE, etc. In this case, of course, the comma before HOW is also not put, for example: All windows, both in the manor's house and in the people's, are wide open(Saltykov-Shchedrin). He did not take cutlets for breakfast with him and now regretted it, since he already wanted to eat.(According to Chekhov).

Exercise

I would have heard the door open.

She was pale with some kind of Hindu pallor, the moles on her face became darker, the blackness of her hair and eyes seemed to be even blacker (Bunin).

And did Paris live like that now! (Bunin).

Well, I’ll help, father, just don’t blame me if it doesn’t come out as you planned.

I rarely visited "noble" houses, but in the theater I was like my own - and ate the abyss of pies at pastry shops (Turgenev).

Going to bed, I myself, I don’t know why, turned three times on one leg, pomaded myself, lay down and slept all night like a log (Turgenev).

It will sound and whine_ like a string, but don't expect songs from it (Turgenev).

All of us are not like people! (Saltykov-Shchedrin).

Now, wrapped in a hood and a cloak, from under which a rifle was sticking out, he rode with one murid, trying to be noticed as little as possible, carefully peering with his quick black eyes into the faces of the inhabitants he came across along the way (Tolstoy).

Millions of people committed against each other such countless atrocities, deceptions, betrayals, thefts, forgeries and issuance of false banknotes, robberies, arson and murders, which in whole centuries the annals of all the courts of the world will not collect and on which, in this period of time, people, those who committed them did not look at them as crimes (Tolstoy).

The guests arrived like snow on their heads.

To meet him, a fifteen-year-old boy quickly came out of the door and stared in surprise with black_ like ripe currants_ shining eyes at the visitors (Tolstoy).

While Hadji Murad was entering, a middle-aged, thin, thin woman, in a red beshmet on a yellow shirt and blue trousers, came out of the inner door, carrying pillows. (Tolstoy).

I accompanied the captain_ not as a servant. She was also amused by the clean, compared to prison, spring air, but it was painful to step on the stones, unaccustomed to walking and shod in clumsy prison cats, and she looked at her feet and tried to step_ as lightly as possible (Tolstoy).

One of them, the most extravagant, was that I wanted to go to him, explain myself to him, confess everything to him, frankly tell him everything and assure him that I acted not like a stupid girl, but with good intentions (Dostoevsky).

So I studied, studied, but ask me_ how a person should live, - I don’t know (Tolstoy).

These experiments could be carried out_ both a month earlier and a month later.

The streets between the houses were narrow, crooked and deep, like cracks in the rock (Andreev).

Fans use this fish_ as a natural clock in a room aquarium (According to V. Matizen).

In the west, the sky is greenish and transparent all night, and there, on the horizon, as it is now, everything is smoldering and smoldering ... (Bunin).

Rostov felt how, under the influence of the hot rays of love ... that childish smile blossomed in his soul and on his face, which he had never smiled since he left home (Tolstoy).

The people in the car were like herring in a barrel.

Irony is present in it_ not as a feature of style or technique, but as part of the general worldview of the author (Lakshin).

When Stepan Trofimovich, already ten years later, was passing this sad story to me in a whisper, having first locked the doors, he swore to me that he was so dumbfounded then on the spot that he did not hear or see how Varvara Petrovna disappeared (Dostoevsky).

But the eyes_ do not seem to be stupid and brilliant, like those of Maria Kresse (Bulgakov).

If you knew that you want this, the holiday would be canceled, ”said the prince, out of habit_ like a wound clock, saying things that he didn’t want to be believed (Tolstoy).

Armande had already begun to despair_ when the local curate, Francois Loizeau, arrived from Oteil, who became friends with Molière at the time when he lived in Oteil (Bulgakov).

But before they had time to get up, a bell rang impatiently behind the doors above (Bulgakov).

“Torment,” he says, “them: now their prayer book is gone,” and galloped past; and behind this stratopedarch are his warriors, and behind them, like a flock of skinny spring geese, boring shadows stretched, and everyone nods sadly and pitifully to the lord, and all quietly moan through weeping: “Let him go! – he alone prays for us” (Leskov).

Seeing this, people stopped in their tracks. "Fuck off, doves! we celebrated the winter, but by spring the bellies were down!” - Porfiry Vladimirych argues to himself, and he, as if on purpose, had just cleared up all the accounts for last year's field crops (Saltykov-Shchedrin).

As if on purpose, he didn’t come today, and I still have a whole terrible night ahead of me! (Bunin).

Understand that this child, whom you are now adopting in the Poquelin house, is none other than Monsieur de Molière! (Bulgakov).

Bazar_ is like another city in the city (Bunin).

However, the consistent application of this method, which treats literature not as the fruit of organic creativity, but as a medium of cultural communication, eventually began to slow down the development of literary criticism (Epshtein).

Next to him, she felt like behind a stone wall. Until now, he was silent, and no one paid any attention to him, but now everyone looked at him, and, probably, everyone was surprised_ how he could still remain unnoticed (Leskov).

Still young, handsome in appearance, with a fortune, endowed with many brilliant qualities, undoubted wit, taste, inexhaustible gaiety, he appeared_ not as a seeker of happiness and patronage, but quite independently (Dostoevsky).

Half even used to die, but they are not amenable to education: they stand in the yard - everyone marvels and even shy away from the walls, and everyone only squints at the sky_ like birds_ with their eyes (Leskov).

Screams like an eagle: stop, I will shoot! (Bunin).

If the introductory word can be omitted or rearranged to another place in the sentence without violating its structure (usually this happens with the unions “and” and “but”), then the union is not included in the introductory construction - a comma need.

For example: "Firstly, it became dark, and, secondly, everyone was tired."

If the introductory word cannot be removed or rearranged, then the comma after the union (usually with the union "a") not put.

For example: “She just forgot about this fact, or maybe she never remembered it”, “..., and therefore ...”, “..., and maybe ...”, “..., which means ...”.

If the introductory word can be removed or rearranged, then the comma need after the union "a", since it is not associated with the introductory word.

For example: “She didn’t just not love him, but maybe even despised him.”

If at the beginning of the sentence there is a coordinating union (in an attached meaning) (“and”, “yes” in the meaning of “and”, “too”, “also”, “and then”, “otherwise”, “yes and”, “ and also ", etc.), and then the introductory word, then a comma before it need not.

For example: “And really, you shouldn’t have done this”; “And perhaps it was necessary to do something differently”; “Finally, the action of the play is ordered and divided into acts”; “Besides, other circumstances came to light”; “But of course, everything ended well.”

It happens rarely: if at the beginning of a sentence worth joining union, A the introductory construction is emphasized intonation, then commas are NEEDED.

For example: "But, to my great annoyance, Shvabrin decisively announced ..."; "And, as usual, they remembered only one good thing."

Always WITHOUT commas are written:

Firstly

at first sight

for sure

likewise

More or less

literally

in addition

in the (final) end

in the end

last resort

best case scenario

Anyway

at the same time

overall

mostly

especially

in some cases

through thick and thin

subsequently

otherwise

as a result

due to this

in this case

in the same time

in this regard

mainly

often

exclusively

as a maximum

meanwhile

just in case

in case of emergency

if possible

as far as possible

still

practically

approximately

with all (with) that

with (all) desire

on occasion

likewise

the biggest

at least

actually

in addition

to top it off

by the proposal

by decree

by decision

traditionally

A comma is NOT placed at the beginning of a sentence:

“Before… I was…”

"Since…"

"Before as…"

"Although…"

"As…"

"In order to…"

"Instead of…"

“Actually…”

"While…"

"Besides..."

"Nevertheless…"

“Despite the fact that ...” (at the same time - separately); DO NOT put a comma before "what".

"If…"

"After…"

“And…”

« Finally" in the meaning of "finally" - does not stand out with commas.

« And this despite the fact that…"- in the middle of a sentence, a comma is always placed!

« Based on this, …"- a comma is placed at the beginning of the sentence.

BUT: “He did so on the basis of ...” - the comma is not put.

« After all, if...then..."- a comma before "if" is not put, since the second part of the double union - "then" goes on. If there is no “then”, then a comma before “if” is put!

« Less than two years..."- a comma before "what" is not put, because this is not a comparison.

comma before "How" put only in case of comparison.

« Policies such as Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov ... ”- a comma is placed, because is the noun "politics".

BUT: "… politicians such as Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov ... ”- no comma is placed before“ how ”.

No commas are placed:

"God forbid", "God forbid", "for God's sake"- no commas stand out, + the word "god" is written with a small letter.

BUT: commas are placed in two directions:

"God bless" in the middle of the sentence it is separated by commas on both sides (the word "God" in this case is capitalized) + at the beginning of the sentence - it is distinguished by a comma (on the right side).

"God"- in these cases, commas are placed on both sides (the word "god" in this case is written with a small letter).

"My God"- separated by commas on both sides; in the middle of the sentence "God" - with a small letter.