Timeline for Comma use with adjectives
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| Feb 18, 2022 at 19:16 | comment | added | Nick07 | Thank you guys! I really appreciate your help! | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 14:14 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | Yes, I'm aware there are more changes needed, I wasn't saying my proposed change was the full alteration, just addressing the parenthetical. | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 9:46 | comment | added | amalloy | @DarthPseudonym To add "as" you need to make even more changes: instead of "as his house being demolished" is no good, so you need "as his house was being demolished". That's fine, but it's more passive and detached, compared to the original, which is perfectly grammatical as is. The "wide-eyed" is parenthetical, and the sentence works if you remove it: "He was watching his house being demolished". | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 3:04 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | I'm not sure the sentence as given is entirely grammatical. "He was watching, wide-eyed, as his house..." is totally fine, but "watching, wide-eyed, his house" gives my brain a little glitch every time I read it. | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 23:21 | comment | added | Peter Jennings | @AndyBonner As you can see from the other answer, the use of commas is debateable and Ronald is probably right! I think we all would probably agree there should be a comma after "wide-eyed" in the OP's version. But you could probably rephrase the sentence to do without them. | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 18:22 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | I'm having a hard time imagining any argument that the given sentence could survive without the commas. One might imagine a sentence like "He was running quickly down the sidewalk," which could set "quickly" off as a parenthetical or not, but we have a direct object here. I can't think of another perfectly parallel example that could do without the commas... "He watched quietly the movie"? "He punched vigorously his brother"? | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 17:35 | history | answered | Peter Jennings | CC BY-SA 4.0 |