Silence having been obtained, the speaker went on with his remarks.
20. The clauses of a compound sentence may be separated by a comma when the connection is too close for the semicolon.
The winds roared in the woods, and the torrents tumbled from the hills.
Hasten to your homes, and there teach your children to detest the deeds of tyranny.
It has, by some grammarians, been given as a rule, to use a comma to set off every part of a compound sentence, which part has in it a verb not in the infinitive mode.
OBS. 14. A dependent clause should be separated by a comma, unless closely connected.
It argues a defect of method, when an author is obliged to write notes upon his own works.
Unless we hurry to the beach, the tide will overtake us.
Whatever reception the present age may give this work, we rest satisfied with our endeavors to deserve a kind one.
When the Tartars make a Lama, their first care is to place him in a dark corner of the temple.