Timeline for Comma before an appositive
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 9:13 | vote | accept | Haritdeep Singh | ||
| Apr 2, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | TimR | These are typographic conventions not grammatical rules. A comma is not incorrect. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 20:04 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The (optional, parenthetical) phrase while promoting his upcoming release Secret Superstar in Vadodara must be set off in commas. So you need one after recently (which itself has been "stylistically" relocated from its "natural" position in the underlying base form Aamir Khan recently opened up about his dream project). As @James says, good style would also include a comma after project, but missing that one out is nowhere near as bad as missing the first one, because in speech the first one practically must represent a pause, whereas conceivably the last one might not. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 15:05 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 13:37 | comment | added | Haritdeep Singh | I agree with your point that if there is no italicization of the appositive, using a comma would prevent any confusion; but at certain times, a rule of thumb is needed for how to use these punctuation marks. So, I wanted to consider it that using a comma in such cases is correct or not? | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | TimR | Punctuation conventions strive to reflect the syntactic and clausal structures of speech, especially in situations where not to demarcate those structures could make things less clear for the reader. In speech there's a syntactic micro-pause around mid-sentence appositives (and before one that ends the sentence). With appositives, unless there's some other typographic or orthographic convention in effect (e.g. italicized titles) the phrase might be a little difficult to read without commas. It does no harm to use them. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | Haritdeep Singh | I deduced the same thing and hence, removed the comma. Just wanted to confirm it. Any comments about the previous sentence. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | BillJ | It stands to reason that Nolan could have directed only one "second feature", so "Memento (2000)" is a supplementary (non-restrictive) appositive here and thus no comma is required. Compare the integrated (restrictive) appositive "... for his feature "Memento (2000), with no comma, where "Memento (2000) is required to identify which "feature" is being referred to. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 13:11 | history | asked | Haritdeep Singh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |