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“ I don't want to go there, furthermore, I have no time to do so." “ I don't want to go there, furthermore, I have no time to do so." In this sentence ,where is the conjuction?

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My opinion is that this should be written as... I don't want to go there; furthermore, I have no time to do so. or I don't want to go there. Furthermore, I have no time to do so. The key to knowing where commas should be places versus a semicolon is to remove the part between the commas and see if the sentence makes sense still. Doing that to the above yields: I don't want to go there I have no time to do so. This isn't correct, so placing commas around 'furthermore' is not correct. They are two distinct sentences, so I would put a semicolon and not a comma.
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Exactly as Jeff has said: you've found a poorly-punctuated sentence. This sentence only exists on Chinese websites - that's a red flag for any English learner!
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Can we join the two sentences with a comma?I think a coordinating conjunction such as “and”,“but” must be uesd in a compound sentence . I am really confused because what i think definitely wrong exists in a dictionary.
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You're correct - so what are the commas for, do you think? ;)
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Furthermore is a adverb,and furthermore if it were used as a conjuction i could not understand why it could surrounded by commas.

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