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Demicjusz Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Swedish wife, the Royal cinema...
Hello again 
Could you help me with these two sentences?
1. Are commas possible/obligatory in this sentence:
My neighbour, whose wife is Swedish, has moved to France.
2. What can be put in the gap here:
The Royal Cinema is the place .......... I met her.
a. -
b. where
c. that
d. in which
e. which (???)
f. ???
Best regards,
D.
Could you help me with these two sentences?
1. Are commas possible/obligatory in this sentence:
My neighbour, whose wife is Swedish, has moved to France.
2. What can be put in the gap here:
The Royal Cinema is the place .......... I met her.
a. -
b. where
c. that
d. in which
e. which (???)
f. ???
Best regards,
D.
Top answer
Hello D. 1. I would say 'obligatory'.
- Hello D.
- 1.
- I would say 'obligatory'.
- 2.
- I would say A is best, followed by B.
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Hello D.
1. I would say 'obligatory'.
2. I would say A is best, followed by B.
But other contributors will disagree.
"You a big Joe E. Brown fan?"
MrP
1. I would say 'obligatory'.
2. I would say A is best, followed by B.
But other contributors will disagree.
"You a big Joe E. Brown fan?"
MrP
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OK, I'll bite.
I'd say commas are only 'possible'. Well, maybe the speaker's trying to distinguish 'My neighbour whose wife is Swedish ...' from another neighbour whose wife is Chinese. It's a multi-cultural world. So then, no commas.
Regards,
Clive
I'd say commas are only 'possible'. Well, maybe the speaker's trying to distinguish 'My neighbour whose wife is Swedish ...' from another neighbour whose wife is Chinese. It's a multi-cultural world. So then, no commas.
Regards,
Clive
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Thanks a lot for answering.
As for the first sentence, it was given in an exercise with no context. In the answer key there were no commas, but the exercise was about linking two simple sentences, so maybe the author of the exercise (probably a Pole, not a native speaker of English) didn't care about commas. I would put the commas there, although it seems to me it's against the rules: m
As for the first sentence, it was given in an exercise with no context. In the answer key there were no commas, but the exercise was about linking two simple sentences, so maybe the author of the exercise (probably a Pole, not a native speaker of English) didn't care about commas. I would put the commas there, although it seems to me it's against the rules: m
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I know my little thread doesn't deserve much attention, so in fact I don't know why I'm writing this... 
Could somebody help,
Could somebody help,
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Sorry, Demi. No slight on your thread was intended.
Q1: If the Swedishness of the wife is incidental, we need
commas; if it's definitive, we don't. So without knowing
more about his Swedish wife (for some reason, I feel
I would like to know more) and the various nationalities
of his neighbours, we can only say that commas
are 'possible'.
Q2: If I were
Q1: If the Swedishness of the wife is incidental, we need
commas; if it's definitive, we don't. So without knowing
more about his Swedish wife (for some reason, I feel
I would like to know more) and the various nationalities
of his neighbours, we can only say that commas
are 'possible'.
Q2: If I were
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