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Fire1 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Comma question

1.The city Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in the southeast corner of Australia.

Do I have to set off "Melbourne" with commas as in "The city, Melbourne, is the capital of the state of Victoria in the southeast corner of Australia."?

Or is there no need to add commas?


2.The Berlin Games are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games was the African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens.

As for the part "...was the African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens",

do "Jesse Owens" have to be set off by a comma as in "was the African-American sprinter and long jumper, Jesse Owens" ?

  

Top answer

The city Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in the southeast corner of Australia. Or is there no need to add commas? Commas would be wrong.

— Anonymous

  • The city Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in the southeast corner of Australia.
  • Or is there no need to add commas?
  • Commas would be wrong.
  • The commas you propose would make "Melbourne" parenthetical, which means it stands outside the sentence and could be dispensed with grammatically.
  • " That is nonsense.
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fire11.The city Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in the southeast corner of Australia. Do I have to set off "Melbourne" with commas as in "The city, Melbourne, is the capital of the state of Victoria in the southeast corner of Australia."?Or is there no need to add commas?

Commas would be wrong. The commas you propose would make "Melbourne"

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