Correct usage.
The photograph of her bathing in the stream references the mythological goddess, Diana
The photograph of her bathing in the stream references the mythological goddess of wild animals, Diana.
Should the first sentence be more 'specific' when using the appositive Diana as a rule, in terms of setting off with a comma. I'd imagine it doesn't require the comma, unlike the second example which is clear whom we are referencing.
1) She has sung in musical performances on several YouTube videos, posted to her husband, Tom's, YouTube channel.
2) She has sung in musical performances on several YouTube videos, posted to her husband Tom's YouTube channel.
3) She has sung in musical performances on several YouTube videos, posted to her husbands, Tom's, YouTube channel.
When a name includes a possessive apostrophe in these contexts it can't take commas, right?
The writer has treated Tom as an appositive but it's at odds with the sentence structure.
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panda blue 483 hould the first sentence be more 'specific' when using the appositive Diana as a rule, in terms of setting off with a comma. I don't know what that means, but that sentence takes no comma. The comma means that there is only one mythological goddess, and her name is Diana.
- panda blue 483 hould the first sentence be more 'specific' when using the appositive Diana as a rule, in terms of setting off with a comma.
- I don't know what that means, but that sentence takes no comma.
- The comma means that there is only one mythological goddess, and her name is Diana.
- panda blue 483 I'd imagine it doesn't require the comma, unlike the second example which is clear whom we are referencing.
- You can put the comma or not, if Diana is indeed the only one of the goddesses in question who presides over wild animals.
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panda blue 483hould the first sentence be more 'specific' when using the appositive Diana as a rule, in terms of setting off with a comma.
I don't know what that means, but that sentence takes no comma. The comma means that there is only one mythological goddess, and her name is Diana.
panda blue 483I'd imagine it doesn't require
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