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Re: New college Essay
Posted By: Paul A., on host 130.95.128.51
Date: Friday, October 27, 2000, at 10:18:17
In Reply To: Re: New college Essay posted by Nyperold on Thursday, October 26, 2000, at 21:24:20:

> Pedantic filter: on

> > I knew better. I knew that for the rest of my life everyone would compare me to my
> > older brother, and that, unless I was just as good as he, I would lose every time.
>
> "life, everyone"

If you're going to put a comma after "life", you have to also put one after "that".

"I knew that, for the rest of my life, everyone would compare me to my older brother..."

Paul