motivated by a celebrated theorem of schur, we show that if~$gamma$ is a normal subgroup of the full automorphism group $aut(g)$ of a group $g$ such that $inn(g)$ is contained in $gamma$ and $aut(g)/gamma$ has no uncountable abelian subgroups of prime exponent, then $[g,gamma]$ is finite, provided that the subgroup consisting of all elements of $g$ fixed by $gamma$ has finite index. so...