“I found your wallet today in my trunk.”
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“I found your wallet today, in my trunk.”
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Sign up to join this communityCommas are used to improve clarity and, in the case of quoted speech, to show features of spoken language.
In this case a comma is not required, but could be inserted to show a pause in the spoken sentence.
You could alternatively use a dash — to show a longer pause.
Hahaha - that's the exact same question that I was going to ask yesterday, but I was (going to be) having a laugh! Changed my mind at the last minute (and choked back my laughter simultaneously) so it'll be interesting to see how this question fares.
My own answer is that it depends on how the sentence should be spoken. A comma usually denotes a slight pause in the sentence and so if you want there to be a pause just before 'in my trunk' (as if someone is saying this for some kind of dramatic effect, or to make a particular point (such as 'what was it doing in my trunk - did you put it there?' or 'I thought you said that you looked in the trunk - how come I could find it and you couldn't!')) then put a comma there.
On the other hand, if want to denote that the sentence was spoken without inflection, pause or any particular effect, then leave the comma out. It would then be spoken in a rather flat manner as if someone is imparting a fact without any particular emotional effect.
Good luck going forward.