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Hans51 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

A comma like / no comma like

There are some traditional foods that can help, like red pepper leaves.


There are some traditional foods that can help like red pepper leaves.


Which one is correct or more natural between the one with a comma and the one without a comma?


I feel like whether there is a comma or not, both sentences carry the same meaning.


What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.

  

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Hans51 There are some traditional foods that can help, like red pepper leaves. Red pepper leaves are among the traditional foods that can help. Hans51 There are some traditional foods that can help like red pepper leaves.

— Anonymous

  • Hans51 There are some traditional foods that can help, like red pepper leaves.
  • Red pepper leaves are among the traditional foods that can help.
  • Hans51 There are some traditional foods that can help like red pepper leaves.
  • This is odd, and on first reading it would be taken for a mistaken attempt at the first sentence, but on its face it means that red pepper leaves can help, and there are traditional foods that can help in the same way that red pepper leaves do.
  • Hans51 I feel like whether there is a comma or not, both sentences carry the same meaning.
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Hans51There are some traditional foods that can help, like red pepper leaves.

Red pepper leaves are among the traditional foods that can help.

Hans51There are some traditional foods that can help like red pepper leaves.

This is odd, and on first reading it would be taken for a mistaken attempt at the first sentence

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Here is how a native speaker is lkely to intepret your sentenves.

There are some traditional foods that can help, like red pepper leaves.

There are some traditional foods that can help, such as / for example red pepper leaves.

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There are some traditional foods that can help like red pepper leave

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