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Ducks1160 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Subordinate Clause
In the following sentence, should there be a comma after urgency? If so, why?
Telemarketers have found that telling their audience ‘to call again if the phones are busy' creates a sense of urgency(,) causing the customer to rush to judgment and purchase the merchandise.
Telemarketers have found that telling their audience ‘to call again if the phones are busy' creates a sense of urgency(,) causing the customer to rush to judgment and purchase the merchandise.
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As it stands, I would use the comma for clarity, since grammatically it is 'sense' that is 'causing', not 'urgency'. It would be better, however, to recast the sentence: Telemarketers have found that telling their customers to 'call again if the phones are busy' creates a sense of urgency that can cause the customer to rush to judgment and purchase the merchandise.
- As it stands, I would use the comma for clarity, since grammatically it is 'sense' that is 'causing', not 'urgency'.
- It would be better, however, to recast the sentence: Telemarketers have found that telling their customers to 'call again if the phones are busy' creates a sense of urgency that can cause the customer to rush to judgment and purchase the merchandise.
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As it stands, I would use the comma for clarity, since grammatically it is 'sense' that is 'causing', not 'urgency'. It would be better, however, to recast the sentence:
Telemarketers have found that telling their customers to 'call again if the phones are busy' creates a sense of urgency that can cause the customer to rush to judgment and purchase the merc
Telemarketers have found that telling their customers to 'call again if the phones are busy' creates a sense of urgency that can cause the customer to rush to judgment and purchase the merc
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