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JJDouglas Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Is this punctuation right?
Is the following punctuated in the correct way?
"The house had been decorated for Christmas with a few lights and lawn ornaments Dad had found in the garage, nothing fancy, but it did give the place a warmer glow than it was used to."
The area in question is what to use between "garage" and "nothing fancy". I've used a comma as I don't think "nothing fancy" can stand on its own as a sentence; it's purely descriptive with no subject of its own. But now I'm wondering if a full stop would make it read more clearly.
"The house had been decorated for Christmas with a few lights and lawn ornaments Dad had found in the garage, nothing fancy, but it did give the place a warmer glow than it was used to."
The area in question is what to use between "garage" and "nothing fancy". I've used a comma as I don't think "nothing fancy" can stand on its own as a sentence; it's purely descriptive with no subject of its own. But now I'm wondering if a full stop would make it read more clearly.
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The comma before "nothing fancy" seems too weak to me. I think a full stop would be better, or possibly a dash.
- The comma before "nothing fancy" seems too weak to me.
- I think a full stop would be better, or possibly a dash.
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The comma before "nothing fancy" seems too weak to me. I think a full stop would be better, or possibly a dash.
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