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Denna1001 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

A question about a sentence I found in a review.

Hi, I was wondering if the sentence below is correct.

A walker raised by werewolves, trained in mechanics by a fae and friend to vampire and ghost, Mercy's world is far from ordinary.

Shouldn't the sentence containing Mercy's world have a period instead of a comma?
  

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Where would you like to put the period?
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A walker raised by werewolves, trained in mechanics by a fae and friend to vampire and ghost(. )Mercy's world is far from ordinary.

I change the comma to a period, is it correct?
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No, but the original is not correct either. All of those things - a walker who was trained and who is a friend - describe Mercy, not Mercy's world. It would actually be improved by leaving the comma, but changing "Mercy's world" to "Mercy lives in a world that"
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Thank you! I see your point about the first sentence. Can you tell me what rule would the sentence followed under? I mean the one where you leave the comma in. I need to study it.
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