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Use this tag for questions about the correct use of punctuation marks, or about using a punctuation mark instead of another one.

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Why does the book say there is an error in 'Conventionally speaking'?

Unless the sentence is addressing men who speak in conventional ways, it is missing a comma. With no comma, conventionally speaking appears to modify "men" (albeit in an awkward, non-idiomatic way.) …
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