Commas?
Inside the office, Mona is at work, passionately counseling a couple.
Can I drop any of the commas in the sentence or would you keep both of them?
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anonymous Inside the office, Mona is at work, passionately counseling a couple. Can I drop any of the commas in the sentence or would you keep both of them? I would drop both of them.
- anonymous Inside the office, Mona is at work, passionately counseling a couple.
- Can I drop any of the commas in the sentence or would you keep both of them?
- I would drop both of them.
- Introductory prepositional phrases are typically at least four or five words long before they need to be set off by a comma, and the final participle clause with 'counseling' can only apply to 'Mona', so I don't see what a comma adds there.
- CJ
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anonymousInside the office, Mona is at work, passionately counseling a couple.
Can I drop any of the commas in the sentence or would you keep both of them?
I would drop both of them. Introductory prepositional phrases are typically at least four or five words long before they need to be set off by a comma, and the final participle clause with
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