Restrictive or non restrictive "who." Comma with who?
Should I put a comma before "who" in this sentence? Is it nonrestrictive here since the clause "who was suddenly chatting..." is not required to identify this basketball star? Or is no comma needed? Please help.
Hannah didn't know what to think about this basketball star who was suddenly chatting with her friends and completely ignoring his own friends.
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Hannah didn't know what to think about this basketball star who was suddenly chatting with her friends and completely ignoring his own friends . If the relative clause is not needed to identify which basketball star it was that was chatting with her friends, then it could be considered non-restrictive, and a comma would normally be included. Having said that, it looks restrictive to me and I'd omit the comma.
- Hannah didn't know what to think about this basketball star who was suddenly chatting with her friends and completely ignoring his own friends .
- If the relative clause is not needed to identify which basketball star it was that was chatting with her friends, then it could be considered non-restrictive, and a comma would normally be included.
- Having said that, it looks restrictive to me and I'd omit the comma.
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Hannah didn't know what to think about this basketball star who was suddenly chatting with her friends and completely ignoring his own friends.
If the relative clause is not needed to identify which basketball star it was that was chatting with her friends, then it could be considered non-restrictive, and a comma would normally be included.
Having said that, it
0You might want to look at the context to see if there were any other basketball stars there.
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