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Hans51 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Meaning of the word one

Q: 'the G7 Summit this June which will focus on...' Shouldn't there be a comma in front of 'which' to add the information of the G7 Summit?

A: It is optional. I would use one.


I am confused with the word one.

Here in the answer, ‘one’ is a comma, right?

Hans51Q: 'the P4G Summit set to be held' Shouldn't there be a comma in front of 'set to be held', too?

A: He was invited to one summit, the one in May, so a comma would be slightly misleading.

Here in the answer, ‘one summit’ is ‘a summit’ and ‘the one’ is ‘the summit’, right?

I am really confused with the word one now.

What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual

  

Top answer

Hans51 Here in the answer, ‘one’ is a comma, right? Right. That was me.

— Anonymous

  • Hans51 Here in the answer, ‘one’ is a comma, right?
  • Right.
  • That was me.
  • Here in the answer, ‘one summit’ is ‘a summit’ and ‘the one’ is ‘the summit’, right?
  • You could say that.
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Hans51Here in the answer, ‘one’ is a comma, right?

Right. That was me.

Hans51A: He was invited to one summit, the one in May, so a comma would be slightly misleading.Here in the answer, ‘one summit’ is ‘a summit’ and ‘the one’ is ‘the summit’, right?

You could say that. The first "one" is an adjective, and the seco

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Hans51Here in the answer, ‘one’ is a comma, right?

Yes.

Hans51Here in the answer, ‘one summit’ is ‘a summit’ and ‘the one’ is ‘the summit’, right?

Yes.

"One" is a pronoun, used instead of "it" when the referent is one of a type, or many like it. For example, in the case of the comma, you are not using a spec

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