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Treepixie Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Comma
Are commas required for setting these nouns apart?
It was with profound love that my dear birth mother Frances Stevens gave her blessing for me to be adopted.
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it was with profound love that my dear birth mother, Frances Stevens, gave her blessing for me to be adopted.
Thanks!
It was with profound love that my dear birth mother Frances Stevens gave her blessing for me to be adopted.
or
it was with profound love that my dear birth mother, Frances Stevens, gave her blessing for me to be adopted.
Thanks!
Top answer
Yes, use the commas with the appositive.
- Yes, use the commas with the appositive.
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Two nouns or noun phrases are in apposition when they refer to the same thing, and they are often unconnected structurally:
'My dad, the policeman, came home late.'
'My dad' and 'the policeman' both refer to precisely the same person, so they are in apposition to each other, or are appositives. If they are not united by a conjunction or otherwise grammatically, they should be
'My dad, the policeman, came home late.'
'My dad' and 'the policeman' both refer to precisely the same person, so they are in apposition to each other, or are appositives. If they are not united by a conjunction or otherwise grammatically, they should be
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