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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Long question: comma before a restrictive clause?
Hi. In Naver.com's online dictionary for the word "service," I saw these among some others in their definitional entries.
A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communication facilities, hospitals, or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body.
Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but arenot concerned with producing or manufacturing goods.
Your services are things you do or the skills that you use in your job, which other people find useful and are usually willing to pay you for.
My points:
I think the first one has a comma before the word "which" because although what follow that word is restrictive, what is in appositive makes the comma necessary. If no appositive were in place, then no comma would be necessary.
I think what follows after the word "which" is restrictive and modifies the word "something" and the adjectival phrases that follow the word "something" do play a part in making it unnecessary for the sentence to have a comma before the word "which."
As for the third one, I think a comma is placed before the word "which" although what follows is restrictive due to the fact what it modifies, which is the word "things," what comes after it, which is long modification, makes it necessary to put a comma to allow some separation and breathing space in otherwise a hard-to-follow sentence. Right?
A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communication facilities, hospitals, or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body.
Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but arenot concerned with producing or manufacturing goods.
Your services are things you do or the skills that you use in your job, which other people find useful and are usually willing to pay you for.
My points:
I think the first one has a comma before the word "which" because although what follow that word is restrictive, what is in appositive makes the comma necessary. If no appositive were in place, then no comma would be necessary.
I think what follows after the word "which" is restrictive and modifies the word "something" and the adjectival phrases that follow the word "something" do play a part in making it unnecessary for the sentence to have a comma before the word "which."
As for the third one, I think a comma is placed before the word "which" although what follows is restrictive due to the fact what it modifies, which is the word "things," what comes after it, which is long modification, makes it necessary to put a comma to allow some separation and breathing space in otherwise a hard-to-follow sentence. Right?
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I think the first one has a comma before the word "which" because although what follow that word is restrictive, what is in appositive makes the comma necessary. If no appositive were in place, then no comma would be necessary. - -Sounds good.
- I think the first one has a comma before the word "which" because although what follow that word is restrictive, what is in appositive makes the comma necessary.
- If no appositive were in place, then no comma would be necessary.
- - -Sounds good.
- "-- Which sentence are you talking about?
- There is no 'something' in the second sentence, and a comma is still needed before 'which' in the first sentence As for the third one, I think a comma is placed before the word "which" although what follows is restrictive due to the fact what it modifies, which is the word "things," what comes after it, which is long modification, makes it necessary to put a comma to allow some separation and breathing space in otherwise a hard-to-follow sentence.
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I think the first one has a comma before the word "which" because although what follow that word is restrictive, what is in appositive makes the comma necessary. If no appositive were in place, then no comma would be necessary. --Sounds good.
I think what follows after the word "which" is restrictive and modifies the word "something" and the adjectival phrases that
I think the first one has a comma before the word "which" because although what follow that word is restrictive, what is in appositive makes the comma necessary. If no appositive were in place, then no comma would be necessary. --Sounds good.
I think what follows after the word "which" is restrictive and modifies the word "something" and the adjectival phrases that
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Hi. Thank you. I mistyped a phrase. The phrase "arenot" should have a space after "are." So it should be "are not."
One of the definitions I wrote:
Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but arenot concerned with producing or manufacturing goods.
One of the definitions I wrote:
Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but arenot concerned with producing or manufacturing goods.
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