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Leecarlton Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Do I need the comma after NY in this sentence?
Nick Martino grew up in Long Island, NY, just 40 minutes from the hustle and bustle of New York City.
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The higher-order place name is treated as parenthetical and takes a comma before and after (except at the end of a sentence, of course, where it takes only the one). This is one of the wholly technical uses of the comma, and it is invariable. By the way, it is better not to use the postal abbreviations in most writing.
- The higher-order place name is treated as parenthetical and takes a comma before and after (except at the end of a sentence, of course, where it takes only the one).
- This is one of the wholly technical uses of the comma, and it is invariable.
- By the way, it is better not to use the postal abbreviations in most writing.
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The higher-order place name is treated as parenthetical and takes a comma before and after (except at the end of a sentence, of course, where it takes only the one). This is one of the wholly technical uses of the comma, and it is invariable. By the way, it is better not to use the postal abbreviations in most writing.
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