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Is "What makes me curious is..." grammatical?

 
 
hanyuu
 
Reply Tue 1 Oct, 2013 07:21 pm
The sentence I'm having trouble with is:
"What makes me curious is how these people will manage to get enough food."

I've heard of this being spoken, but is this grammatically correct? Should there be a comma between 'curious' and 'is'?

Thanks in advance.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2013 02:10 am
@hanyuu,
No--if you used a comma at all, it would be after "is": "What makes me curious is, how these people will manage to get enough food." The recent trend over the last 30 or 40 years, is to use fewer commas. I think most native speakers would not use a comma in that sentence. Here's an example in which a comma might be useful: "What makes me curious is, people don't seem to understand that the more things change, the more they stay the same."
hanyuu
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2013 08:16 am
@Setanta,
Thanks for clarifying!
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JTT
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2013 10:57 am
@hanyuu,
Yes, it's grammatical, Hanyuu. What makes you doubt that?
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