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Originally posted by Christien
why the comma?
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why not?
EDIT as far as i know , it's allowed
Parenthetical phrases in sentences may include the following:
Address: My father ate the bagel, John.
Interjection: My father ate the bagel, gosh darn it!
Aside: My father, if you don’t mind my telling you this, ate the bagel.
Appositive: My father, a jaded and bitter man, ate the bagel.
Absolute phrase: My father, his eyes flashing with rage, ate the bagel.
Free modifier: My father ate the bagel, chewing with unbridled fury.
Resumptive modifier: My father ate the bagel, a bagel which no man had yet chewed.
Summative modifier: My father ate the bagel, a feat which no man had attempted.
Any phrase that interrupts the flow of the main clause:
My father, chewing with unbridled fury, ate the bagel (free modifier).
My father, in a fit of rage, ate the bagel (prepositional phrase).
My father, with no regard for his health, ate the bagel (adverbial phrase).
My father, despite his lack of teeth, ate the bagel (adverbial phrase).
Years following dates (in American use): My father ate a bagel on December 7, 1941. (See #8 below.)
States following cities: My father ate a bagel in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.
In each case, the parenthetical (as if in parentheses) is both preceded and followed by a comma, unless that would result in doubling a punctuation mark.
EDIT2 , and even if it isn't , i can't be bothered, it's my 3rd language, and i'm better at it then some, if not many, americans
