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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

...for nearly a week has been found...

http://news.yahoo.com/missing-kansas-student-aisha-khan-found-reunited-family-121242371.html
Aisha Khan, the 19-year-old Kansas college student missing for nearly a week has been found safe and unharmed, according to ABC News' Kansas City affiliate KMBC.

- ...for nearly a week has been found...
- ...for nearly a week, has been found...
Which is correct?
  

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Hi, I would use the version with the comma (as in your second example), but I presume it may have been omitted to avoid overusing commas. Anyway, it can also be a typo. Regards

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  • Hi, I would use the version with the comma (as in your second example), but I presume it may have been omitted to avoid overusing commas.
  • Anyway, it can also be a typo.
  • Regards
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Hi,

I would use the version with the comma (as in your second example), but I presume

it may have been omitted to avoid overusing commas. Anyway, it can also be a typo.

Regards
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I'll repeat. You're not going to find any errors in writing like this.
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Hi,

Yes, I'd definitely put that comma, since the phrase











the 19-year-old Kansas college student missing for nearly a week












is clearly intended as an a
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AnonymousI'll repeat. You're not going to find any errors in writing like this.
That's what I thought too - until I took a good look at it.
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Thank you, Regards, Clive and CalifJim.
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