Correct usage.
Seeing the world for what it is, is never a bad thing.
Is this correctly punctuated ?
Does named Adam require commas ?
A 29-year-old passenger named Adam claimed to the Mirror Online that officials told him a man with a gun had boarded the plane.
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panda blue 483 Seeing the world for what it is, is never a bad thing. Is this correctly punctuated ? A comma between subject and verb is so badly wrong and illogical that it can be justified only in the most exceptional of circumstances.
- panda blue 483 Seeing the world for what it is, is never a bad thing.
- Is this correctly punctuated ?
- A comma between subject and verb is so badly wrong and illogical that it can be justified only in the most exceptional of circumstances.
- I'm not sure that this is exceptional enough, so I would delete the comma.
- panda blue 483 Does named Adam require commas ?
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panda blue 483Seeing the world for what it is, is never a bad thing.
Is this correctly punctuated ?
A comma between subject and verb is so badly wrong and illogical that it can be justified only in the most exceptional of circumstances. I'm not sure that this is exceptional enough, so I would delete the comma.
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0panda blue 483Seeing the world for what it is, is never a bad thing.Is this correctly punctuated ?
The Chicago Manual of Style allows that comma. Their example sentence is "Whatever is, is good." They only permit it "for ease of reading", but I have to say it does not make reading easier for me. On the contrary.
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