In Avatar (2009), Jake recording his vlog:
Jake: Okay, location, shack, and the days are starting to blur together.
why comma before "shack" needed?
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Sign up to join this communityIn Avatar (2009), Jake recording his vlog:
Jake: Okay, location, shack, and the days are starting to blur together.
why comma before "shack" needed?
Jake is not talking in complete sentences. He is saying words with very little syntactic connections
Okay (this is just filler while he thinks of what to say next)
Location (He has reduced "My location is..." to just one word.)
Shack (We have to assume the person watching this will have enough context to understand what "shack" means. Without context this doesn't tell you what his location is.)
Note that there is no verb. The listener is has to fill in the missing syntax.
It is as if he is reading a column from a table
Location |
---|
Shack |
The commas help the reader to understand that these are isolated words, and aren't part of a flowing sentence.