RE: "and then," or simply "then"?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

 What Sean just said is perhaps *the* most important point of this thread:
If there is a good reason for some alternative usage, the language *will*
change in response. Absent the good reason, some of us will continue the
good fight.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


> -----Original Message-----
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> .com] On Behalf Of Sean Brierley
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> Subject: RE: "and then," or simply "then"?
> 
> "Click File, then click Save as" is scannable and gets the 
> message across. Grammatically, it's also incorrect.
> 
> "Click File; then click Save as" is scannable and gets the 
> message across. Grammatically, it's also correct.
> 
> "Click File, and then click Save as"  is scannable and gets 
> the message across. Grammatically, it's also correct.
> 
> So, if you have three choices, all scannable, two 
> grammatically correct and one incorrect, why pick the 
> incorrect one? Really, I'm onboard with picking the incorrect 
> one and consistently applying the incorrect one if there's a 
> good reason to do so. What's the good reason?
> 


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