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1. Chris Santon congratulated Layod Dawson on his appointment and expressed that he will take the company to the new heights.

2. 1. Chris Santon congratulated Layod Dawson on his appointment, and expressed that he will take the company to the new heights.

Do both the sentences convey same meaning or comma changes anything.

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1. Chris Santon congratulated Layod Dawson on his appointment and expressed that he will take the company to the new heights.

2. 1. Chris Santon congratulated Layod Dawson on his appointment, and expressed that he will take the company to the new heights.

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Hi

COMMA is wrong here..
Here you are joining two dependent clause. The second portion after AND does not have a SUBJECT and is dependent on portion before AND.
In these cases comma is wrong.

Santon congratulated Layod Dawson on his appointment, and santon expressed that he will take the company to the new heights.
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Thanks a lot chetan2u. Your reply made things very clear. Though I knew this rule but was not sure about this. This wrong sentence is from Times of India.

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GMAT Sentence Correction doesn't test this issue and doesn't test commas in general (with one small exception that isn't related to your example). Commas can occasionally give you a clue to where there's another grammar error, but a comma will never make the difference between a right and wrong answer on the GMAT, except possibly when dealing with essential/inessential modifiers.
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I feel both sentences have an issue with usage of "will". I feel "would" should be used.
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I feel both sentences have an issue with usage of "will". I feel "would" should be used.
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You're right, nice catch. Since the rest of the sentence is in past tense, we use 'would' to express the 'future of the past'.

He said that he would take the trash out in the morning.

He says that he will take the trash out in the morning.
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You're right, nice catch. Since the rest of the sentence is in past tense, we use 'would' to express the 'future of the past'.

He said that he would take the trash out in the morning.

He says that he will take the trash out in the morning.
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Thanks ccooley for your really valuable inputs. Though I knew this rule but could not spot this error regarding usage of "will" and "would".

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