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Palinkasocsi Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Comma
Dear Friends,
Look at the following sentence:
For example, when, on entering her son’s untidy room, a mother says to her son I love children who keep their rooms clean, she may be simply alluding to her expectation or desire for her son to clean up his room.
My question is:
Should I put a comma after 'room', since I am using 'on entering her son's untidy room' in a restrictive sense? I suppose the comma is not needed but what do you natives think?
Thanks a lot.
Palinkasocsi
Look at the following sentence:
For example, when, on entering her son’s untidy room, a mother says to her son I love children who keep their rooms clean, she may be simply alluding to her expectation or desire for her son to clean up his room.
My question is:
Should I put a comma after 'room', since I am using 'on entering her son's untidy room' in a restrictive sense? I suppose the comma is not needed but what do you natives think?
Thanks a lot.
Palinkasocsi
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Hi, Look at the following sentence: For example, when, on entering her son’s untidy room, a mother says to her son I love children who keep their rooms clean, she may be simply alluding to her expectation or desire for her son to clean up his room. My question is: Should I put a comma after 'room', since I am using 'on entering her son's untidy room' in a restrictive sense? I suppose the comma is not needed but what do you natives think?
- Hi, Look at the following sentence: For example, when, on entering her son’s untidy room, a mother says to her son I love children who keep their rooms clean, she may be simply alluding to her expectation or desire for her son to clean up his room.
- My question is: Should I put a comma after 'room', since I am using 'on entering her son's untidy room' in a restrictive sense?
- I suppose the comma is not needed but what do you natives think?
- I'd put commas before and after 'on entering her son’s untidy room' because of the length of the phrase.
- They help the reader to easily see the structure of the sentence.
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Hi,
Look at the following sentence:
For example, when, on entering her son’s untidy room, a mother says to her son I love children who keep their rooms clean, she may be simply alluding to her expectation or desire for her son to clean up his room.
My question is:
Should I put a comma after 'room', since I am using 'on entering her son's untidy room' in a res
Look at the following sentence:
For example, when, on entering her son’s untidy room, a mother says to her son I love children who keep their rooms clean, she may be simply alluding to her expectation or desire for her son to clean up his room.
My question is:
Should I put a comma after 'room', since I am using 'on entering her son's untidy room' in a res
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I know a lot of our learners use many forums, but I am curious when they post the exact same question in more than one forum after it's already been answered once. Is it because you don't like the advice you get on one and you want to see if another one will give you the answer you truly want?
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Dear Grammar Geek,
I use more forums because:
a) (simply) why not? (This is one of the greatest things about the Internet that you have more options/forums to choose from.)
b) sometimes I realize that even natives have different views on certain points of grammar.
Anyways, thanks for your posts but (if my using more forums disturbes you) you are not forced to
I use more forums because:
a) (simply) why not? (This is one of the greatest things about the Internet that you have more options/forums to choose from.)
b) sometimes I realize that even natives have different views on certain points of grammar.
Anyways, thanks for your posts but (if my using more forums disturbes you) you are not forced to
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Thank you very much, Clive. You are a great help again.
Palinkasocsi
Palinkasocsi
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It doesn't disturb me, but I gave the exact same answer weeks ago. If you have the one comma, you need the other comma. I guess I'm more curious because it wasn't a simultaneous post, but seperated by so much time. Anyway, it's certainly true that even natives disagree from time to time.
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If you have given an answer elsewhere, you should not bother answering my posts again. To quench your curiosity: My ’comma-problem’ arouse a couple of days ago and I only have time to deal with it now. Since I have received no satisfactory answers from other forums, this is how EnglishForward came into the picture now.
Pali
Pali
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