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Hole One a New See Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Ambiguity in a sentence

Hi everybody,

There is the following sentence:

"I live in the third largest city in Hungary."

There are 2 questions about this sentence:

1. Is this unambiguous if I want to express: 'the third largest city of Hungary' (and not world's third largest city)?

2. What is the situation if I add a comma after "city"? (= I live in the third largest city, in Hungary.)
I wouldn't add. I'm just curious about it. What is the meaning if it is possible?

Thanks for your answer in advance.
  

Top answer

" With either preposition, in or of, the meaning is clear. Do not put a comma after city . It is incorrect punctuation.

— AlpheccaStars

  • " With either preposition, in or of, the meaning is clear.
  • Do not put a comma after city .
  • It is incorrect punctuation.
  • It does nothing for the meaning.
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Hole One a New See"I live in the third largest city in Hungary."
With either preposition, in or of, the meaning is clear.
Do not put a comma after city. It is incorrect punctuation. It does nothing for the meaning.
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Thank you very much Emotion: smile

In this case I gave the correct information on a Hungarian forum. Now I can say that my solution is co
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