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Sat 5 Dec, 2015 05:14 am
Hi.
I'm not even sure what this is called, so I can't search usefully for it. I want to write a sentence that ends with a noun followed by a clause that explains what that noun means. One might write something like,
'Plato's description was of a different kind of relationship which we now call a Platonic relationship; that is, a non-sexual form of intimacy',
but for reasons that have to do with what surrounds the actual sentence I'm using (which isn't the above one), I want to write something more like,
''Plato's description was of a different kind of relationship which we now call a Platonic relationship, a non-sexual form of intimacy'.
The comma seems strange to me, however; and I don't want to use an em-dash (again, for reasons of surrounding content). Is this proper use or must I use one of the alternatives that I'd prefer not to?
@wayne-scales,
Is it really necessary to throw in a definition of
platonic?
@wayne-scales,
No. 2 is okay Wayne, not a bit strange, tho I'd'v writ
...call Platonic, a...