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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

comma, finally

Do I need a comma after the word "finally?"

My dog ate the rug, ran away, got lost, and finally came home.

Is "finally" an introductory word even though it is used at the end of the sentence?

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It reads fine to me without the comma, but you can put one in if you want. How do you know that your dog got lost? It might have been happy wandering around for a while, but knew its way home.

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  • It reads fine to me without the comma, but you can put one in if you want.
  • How do you know that your dog got lost?
  • It might have been happy wandering around for a while, but knew its way home.
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It reads fine to me without the comma, but you can put one in if you want.

How do you know that your dog got lost? It might have been happy wandering around for a while, but knew its way home.
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Perhaps you may put commas around finally if you want to emphasise that your dog has FINALLY come home.
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I think there's a difference in meaning.

If you put the comma behind finally, you're simply listing the things which the dog did, and coming home is the last (final) one of those things. (And that is, I believe, the intended meaning)
My dog ate the rug, ran away, got lost, and finally, came home.

If you say
My dog ate the
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Dejanm83I think there's a difference in meaning.

If you put the comma behind finally, you're simply listing the things which the dog did, and coming home is the last (final) one of those things. (And that is, I believe, the intended meaning)
My dog ate the rug, ran away, got lost, and finally, came home.

If you say
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