a. This is a terrible thing not to be able to see him.
b. This is a bad blow to me not to be able to see him.
Are these sentences correctly punctuated?
Would you say that we need a comma before 'not'?
The idea in (a) is that the terrible thing = not to be able to see him.
The idea in (b) is that the bad blow = not to be able to see him.
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Yes to the comma if you wish to indicate an emphatic pause.
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