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Nicetomeetyou Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Commas?
Which is appropriate, with or without commas? I’d appreciate if if you could also tell me why that is so.
A) That house, the roof of which is red, was built 30 years ago.
B) That house the roof of which is red was built 30 years ago.
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in A, the information in commas is unimportant, just parenthetical. In B, the roof of which is red is important. The sentence suggests that there are several houses but only one has a red roof.
- in A, the information in commas is unimportant, just parenthetical.
- In B, the roof of which is red is important.
- The sentence suggests that there are several houses but only one has a red roof.
- Clive
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in A, the information in commas is unimportant, just parenthetical.
In B, the roof of which is red is important. The sentence suggests that there are several houses but only one has a red roof.
Clive
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