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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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word order in sentence

Hey guys, I'm not a native speaker, but writing now an article for a web project and suddenly faced the problem of word order in a sentence. Could you pls check if it's OK or not?
"And the tale dates back to October, 17th,1972, when in St. Joseph, Missouri Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born."
And should I put comma after Missouri?
  

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Anonymous And the tale dates back to October, 17th,1972, when in St. Joseph, Missouri Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born. A comma after Missouri would help.

  • Anonymous And the tale dates back to October, 17th,1972, when in St.
  • Joseph, Missouri Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born.
  • A comma after Missouri would help.
  • Yes.
  • , when Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in St.
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AnonymousAnd the tale dates back to October, 17th,1972, when in St. Joseph, Missouri Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born.
A comma after Missouri would help. Yes. On the other hand, the canonical word order would be

And the tale ..., when Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Hopefully, you have a good stylistic

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