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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Is a comma needed?

"When the bogeyman goes to sleep at night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris."

Does this sentence need a comma? This was on a chalkboard at a bar last night. A friend of mine and I had a bet about whether or not it needed a comma. Please let me know your thoughts.
  

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" Does this sentence need a comma? This was on a chalkboard at a bar last night. A friend of mine and I had a bet about whether or not it needed a comma.

— Philip

  • " Does this sentence need a comma?
  • This was on a chalkboard at a bar last night.
  • A friend of mine and I had a bet about whether or not it needed a comma.
  • Please let me know your thoughts.
  • Yes, after the when-clause!
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Anonymous"When the bogeyman goes to sleep at night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris."

Does this sentence need a comma? This was on a chalkboard at a bar last night. A friend of mine and I had a bet about whether or not it needed a comma. Please let me know your thoughts.
Yes, after the when-clause!
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Not strictly necessary, no confusions without it.

But I would use it.

Try a search at Google with:

"when he goes" "he checks"
(both, as in the above)

and you're going to see that most full sentences using both have the comma.
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"When the bogeyman goes to sleep at night" is an adverbial subordinate clause. A comma should be placed in between "night" and "he".

Jen
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