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Linguaphile Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

participle

The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
The plane crashed killing all 200 people aboard.

Is there any difference between these two sentences? What difference does the comma make?
  

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Linguaphile The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard. The plane crashed killing all 200 people aboard. Is there any difference between these two sentences?

— Yoong Liat

  • Linguaphile The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
  • The plane crashed killing all 200 people aboard.
  • Is there any difference between these two sentences?
  • What difference does the comma make?
  • The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
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LinguaphileThe plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
The plane crashed killing all 200 people aboard.

Is there any difference between these two sentences? What difference does the comma make?
The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
IMO, the comma is required.
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Yoong Liat
The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
IMO, the comma is required.

Hi, Yoong. Both sentences are from dictionaries like Oxford or Cambridge. They were actually a bit different but I modified them not to cause the answerers to digress from the point.

The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
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Linguaphile
Yoong Liat
The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
IMO, the comma is required.

Hi, Yoong. Both sentences are from dictionaries like Oxford or Cambridge. They were a bit different but I modified them not to cause the answerers to digress from the point.

The plane crashed, killing al
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The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
The plane crashed killing all 200 people aboard.

Is there any difference between these two sentences? Not in meaning. Just the comma is different (of course).
 What difference does the comma make? None as far as meaning is concerned.
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Yoong Liat
Linguaphile
Yoong Liat
The plane crashed, killing all 200 people aboard.
IMO, the comma is required.

Hi, Yoong. Both sentences are from dictionaries like Oxford or Cambridge. They were a bit different but I modified them not to cause the answerers to digress from the point.

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LinguaphileThe plane crashed killing all 157 passengers aboard.

"Killing all/the 157 people aboard" would sound fine to me; but "all 157 passengers aboard" sounds a little odd.

MrP
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