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Results tagged with appositives
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Usage with appositives and titles
Hermione Granger, a witch at Hogwarts School, is accomplished at spells.
The core of this sentence is Hermione Granger is accomplished at spells.
(A witch at Hogwarts School is an appositive noun ph …
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Comma usage influencing context/meaning
a) He continued to mark his papers when student Sarah entered the room.
Without the context of say: *his favourite student or a specific description such as the student with the red hair can commas be …
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Comma usage names
One helpful set of terms is essential vs. nonessential. When the identifier makes sense in the sentence by itself, then the name is nonessential and you use a comma before it. Otherwise, no comma. …
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Correct usage with definite article/titles
https://blog.inkforall.com/appositive
In this example from the resource:
1)The dermatologist, Dr Miller, looked me over from head to toe.
Does the removal of the definite article 'the' change the subj …
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Commas with restrictive sentences
1:The 1987 movie, Innerspace, was pure science fiction.
Would the comma placement here suggest this was the only movie of that year and is it still in a correct appositive structure if the informat …
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