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Nonrestrictive relative clauses are parenthetic, as are similar clauses introduced by conjunctions indicating time or place. Commas are therefore needed. A nonrestrictive clause is one that does
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Use a dash only when a more common mark of punctuation seems inadequate.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
William Zinsser • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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A comma is preferable when the clauses are very short and alike in form, or when the tone of the sentence is easy and conversational.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Lift out the top layer of your toolbox—your vocabulary and all the grammar stuff. On the layer beneath go those elements of style upon which I’ve already touched. Strunk and White offer the best tools (and the best rules) you could hope for, describing them simply and clearly.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
As George Orwell pointed out in “Politics and the English Language,” an essay written in 1946 but often cited during the wars in Cambodia, Vietnam and Iraq, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.... Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”