Do I have to insert a comma in this case?
" This is a unique situation for me being a first year student at IWU "
Do I have to insert a comma between "me" and "being" to make the sentence grammatical because it's not possible that two "me"s exist ? as in " This is a unique situation for me, being a first year student at IWU "
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fire1 " This is a unique situation for me being a first year student at IWU " Do I have to insert a comma between "me" and "being" to make the sentence grammatical because it's not possible that two "me"s exist ? as in " This is a unique situation for me, being a first year student at IWU " The structure is faulty, and the meaning is ambiguous. A comma won't help.
- fire1 " This is a unique situation for me being a first year student at IWU " Do I have to insert a comma between "me" and "being" to make the sentence grammatical because it's not possible that two "me"s exist ?
- as in " This is a unique situation for me, being a first year student at IWU " The structure is faulty, and the meaning is ambiguous.
- A comma won't help.
- I can't tell whether it means that the unique situation is his being a freshman or the unique situation is made unique by virtue of his being a freshman.
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fire1" This is a unique situation for me being a first year student at IWU "
Do I have to insert a comma between "me" and "being" to make the sentence grammatical because it's not possible that two "me"s exist ? as in " This is a unique situation for me, being a first year student at IWU "
0fire1This is a unique situation for me, being a first year student at IWU.
A comma (and a period) definitely helps, but it doesn't solve all the problems.
You can read it with the initial "This" as something outside the sentence or as "being a first-year student at IWU".
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