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I would like to know which of the 3 sentences above is correct. I know sentence 3 is most likely the correct one. I used sentence 1 in my report writeup but was asked to amend to use the sentence 2 version. Can anyone explain? Thanks.
hence means therefore. These terms can be placed at the beginning of a sentence or in the middle of a compound or complex sentence.
[there is] No technical support, hence, no fix will be available for the system bug.
The comma, in this bullet-style sentence, should come after hence.
In full, a sentence like that would look like this: There is no technical support. Hence, no fix will be available for the system bug. However, the word hence can be placed in the middle and followed by a comma.
Regardless of where the word hence is placed (at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence, it would normally be followed by a comma and if what follows it is one idea, that idea should be stated in full and not truncated as in 2).
