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When to use one or two commas with appositives? discusses appositives and other descriptive phrases that are followed by a person's name. I was taught that an appositive was a clarification of the ...
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In the following sentence: Her favourite thing to do, though, was to sit in the pavilion, wine pot in hand, taking swigs of infused wine she made using flowers from the garden. Is it acceptable to ...
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Is it correct to have commas surrounding “though” in this sentence? Her favourite thing to do, though, was to sit in the pavilion, wine pot in hand, taking swigs of infused wine she made using ...
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Contrasting Elements ("not") in Correlative Conjunctions: When you have a correlative conjunctive that includes a contrasting "not" element (as in: "if not...then...") ...
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Do I need the comma in this sentence? If so, what is the grammatical basis behind it? The significance of the color blue in the poem has long been a point of focus for scholars, largely due to the ...
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Give your first, immediate interpretation of... There is a soldier on the hill whom he sees with binoculars. What springs to mind? Are these to be rephrased in the same way? Is the punctuation ...
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Where should commas go in a sentence like the following: Consider the size quantity and most importantly price. To address the elephant in the room, I side firmly with the oxford comma in most cases,...
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I can't seem to find the answer to the above question. I know when to use no commas (essential) and when to use two commas (non-essential), but when do you use only one comma? It appears you use only ...
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I was reading an amateur novel which had this sentence: Humans by nature, at least in this day and age are fickle creatures. My immediate thought was that the comma placement was wrong. My first ...
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Why is the comma added in the following? [The] Hyena crept slowly round, making the most of his spotted brown camouflaged fur against the brownish stems of grass.
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Why or how do the commas work in this sentence? If the second I text you back, you call me because you know I'm holding my phone, I will call the police. They’re not parenthetical.
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I am unsure when to use comma and when to use dashes when writing parenthetical elements in as sentence. For instance: He answered - or at least he tried to answer - the question correctly. He ...
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This is a question about splitting a verb with a clause, not a word. Thus, it's similar to but different from usual verb splitting. Or, rather, I'm wondering if it's different enough to have its own ...
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I've read that you are not supposed to include a comma before 'in which', since it is part of a restrictive clause linked to a noun. If you do put a comma before it, it is to render it part of a ...
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is adding the comma before was necessary? a project involving training for children, teachers, and parents(,) was the most effective
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