[Knitting A Conundrum]

Clausery:
it has a subject and a verb!

Phrasery:
going at it the hard way, with no main verb or subject!

Dependent clausery:
Which you discover,
Because it needs more
If something is missing,

I did this too many years. I can correct all the grammar in a long work and have no idea of what it says.

All your commas are belong to us!

[Gondring]

I recommend Lapsing into a Comma, by Bill Walsh (chief copy editor in the business section of The Washington Post).

And you're right, whenever I have been reading lots of 18th- and 19th-century writing, I find myself writing in more complex ways. I also notice that my earlier writing was far better than it is these days, now that online writing has become so lax...back in the 70s and 80s, poor writing online was more the exception than the rule.

[Redleg Duke]

Very good!