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Andrei Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
The comma
Since 1923, the numbers studying and celebrating the Talmud have grown with each cycle.
This year, the 45,000 tickets for the showcase rally at New York's Madison Square Garden were hot property, with many changing hands on eBay.
Orthodox Jews wave chickens above their head to cleanse their sins
Those without tickets watched proceedings on giant screens at other conference centres across the US.
On stage, rabbis thanked the crowds and pledged to attract even more to the next celebration, due in 2012.
"It's delicious, but we want more! We want to daven [pray] with millions!" the New York Times reported Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman as saying.
Holocaust survivor Michael Jakobovits, 79, was overcome with emotion.
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Look at the following sentence of the above:
On stage, rabbis thanked the crowds and pledged to attract even more to the next celebration, due in 2012.
The first comma is optional; however the final comma is wrong. You should not put a comma after the word 'celebration'. Simply it should be ........next celebration due in 2012.
Your comments are welcome.
This year, the 45,000 tickets for the showcase rally at New York's Madison Square Garden were hot property, with many changing hands on eBay.
Orthodox Jews wave chickens above their head to cleanse their sins
Those without tickets watched proceedings on giant screens at other conference centres across the US.
On stage, rabbis thanked the crowds and pledged to attract even more to the next celebration, due in 2012.
"It's delicious, but we want more! We want to daven [pray] with millions!" the New York Times reported Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman as saying.
Holocaust survivor Michael Jakobovits, 79, was overcome with emotion.
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Look at the following sentence of the above:
On stage, rabbis thanked the crowds and pledged to attract even more to the next celebration, due in 2012.
The first comma is optional; however the final comma is wrong. You should not put a comma after the word 'celebration'. Simply it should be ........next celebration due in 2012.
Your comments are welcome.
Top answer
Hello Andrei If the celebration is annual, or less frequent than annual, I would include the comma before 'due'. The celebration has already been defined temporally (it's the 'next' celebration), so a comma is necessary to separate it from the additional information ('due in 2012'). ' Tricky one, though, and others may disagree!
- Hello Andrei If the celebration is annual, or less frequent than annual, I would include the comma before 'due'.
- The celebration has already been defined temporally (it's the 'next' celebration), so a comma is necessary to separate it from the additional information ('due in 2012').
- ' Tricky one, though, and others may disagree!
- MrP
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Hello Andrei
If the celebration is annual, or less frequent than annual, I would include the comma before 'due'.
The celebration has already been defined temporally (it's the 'next' celebration), so a comma is necessary to separate it from the additional information ('due in 2012').
If you remove the comma, it means:
'...the next celebration [in the series
If the celebration is annual, or less frequent than annual, I would include the comma before 'due'.
The celebration has already been defined temporally (it's the 'next' celebration), so a comma is necessary to separate it from the additional information ('due in 2012').
If you remove the comma, it means:
'...the next celebration [in the series
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