Note 56 — PUNCTUATION
Reading edition
Nevertheless the reader is not to be commended who, being told that the word however was usually followed by a comma, insisted upon altering a sentence beginning ‘However true this may be,’ &c., to ‘However, true this may be,’ &c. This is the late Dean Alford’s story. See The Queen’s English, p. 124, ed. 1870.—H. H.