Type of usage and accuracy in these examples.
Yesterday, he tweeted a picture of an actor carrying his own daughter in a baby carrier or papoose, complete with the caption:
In this example, should there be a comma after carrier or no comma at all- strictly speaking ? You can't tag on 'complete with the caption' with a comma right .
which has had direct involvement with the team leader: he's provided the catering.
Can a dependent clause have a sentence added after the colon? He is providing the catering.
The resulting novel would be (title); a literary classic and benchmark work of the 1950s.
What would you class the underlined element (a noun phrase ?) and can it be joined with a semi-colon informally. Would a Em Dash be better?
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Yesterday, he tweeted a picture of an actor carrying his own daughter in a baby carrier or papoose, complete with the caption: That comma is fine. which has had direct involvement with the team leader : he's provided the catering. I suppose there was an independent before the dependent clause.
- Yesterday, he tweeted a picture of an actor carrying his own daughter in a baby carrier or papoose, complete with the caption: That comma is fine.
- which has had direct involvement with the team leader : he's provided the catering.
- I suppose there was an independent before the dependent clause.
- That would be fine.
- An independent clause as a minimum is necessary after a semi-colon.
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Yesterday, he tweeted a picture of an actor carrying his own daughter in a baby carrier or papoose, complete with the caption:
That comma is fine.
which has had direct involvement with the team leader: he's provided the catering.
I suppose there was an independent before the d
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