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Panda blue 483 Posted 7 years ago
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Correct usage in this example

This sentence is missing a comma before 'thought' right and therefore wrong?


Paramedics were seen desperately administering CPR near a set of escalators in Cabot Place Mall, where the stricken man thought to be in his 50s, had plunged from a height.



Is this a long noun phrase with the head word 'stranger'. It's very long so I wasn't sure if the comma was a mistake.


The police swoop at dawn to arrest a murder suspect in Surrey, 15 miles from where a stranger stabbed to death a father, 51, on a train in an 'unprovoked killing after a three-minute argument' in front of the victim's 14-year-old son

  

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Paramedics were seen desperately administering CPR near a set of escalators in Cabot Place Mall, where the stricken man thought to be in his 50s, had plunged from a height. Right, but the comma after "Mall" is unneeded. panda blue 483 Is this a long noun phrase with the head word 'stranger'.

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  • Paramedics were seen desperately administering CPR near a set of escalators in Cabot Place Mall, where the stricken man thought to be in his 50s, had plunged from a height.
  • Right, but the comma after "Mall" is unneeded.
  • panda blue 483 Is this a long noun phrase with the head word 'stranger'.
  • The police swoop at dawn to arrest a murder suspect in Surrey, 15 miles from where a stranger stabbed to death a father, 51, on a train in an 'unprovoked killing after a three-minute argument' in front of the victim's 14-year-old son The comma is right.
  • The long phrase augments "Surrey".
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panda blue 483This sentence is missing a comma before 'thought' right and therefore wrong?Paramedics were seen desperately administering CPR near a set of escalators in Cabot Place Mall, where the stricken man thought to be in his 50s, had plunged from a height.

Right, but the comma after "Mall" is unneeded.

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I would certainly put in a comma in the first example as the information is parenthetical and the commas should work as a pair.

panda blue 483Paramedics were seen desperately administering CPR near a set of escalators in Cabot Place Mall, where the stricken man, thought to be in his 50s, had plunged from a height.

The second one is not a noun phrase

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