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Removal of comma

 
 
Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 12:43 am
Here, we reproduce an excerpt from the book, “The Best Stage of My Life”, by actor Adrian Pang, about his experience on working at Mediacorp and how theatre has always been his first love.

Can the comma beside "book" be removed?

Thanks.
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hightor
 
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Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 07:28 am
@tanguatlay,
You know what — I think you can get rid of all the commas.
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 12:53 pm
@hightor,
Thanks, hightor.

Do you mean all the three commas?
hightor
 
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Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 02:48 pm
@tanguatlay,
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Here we reproduce an excerpt from the book “The Best Stage of My Life” by actor Adrian Pang about his experience working at Mediacorp and how theatre has always been his first love.


(I removed the "on" from "on working at" as well)

I think it reads quickly like this and doesn't really require commas. Sometimes adding every allowable comma makes for a stilted and broken quality in the sentence
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 02:52 pm
@tanguatlay,
Grammarly didn't have a problem with it.
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Glennn
 
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Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 03:12 pm
@tanguatlay,
Here we produce an excerpt from actor Adrian Pang's book "The Best Stage of My Life" which concerns his experience working at MediaCorp and how theatre has always been his first love.

Since an excerpt is technically a reproduction, I changed "reproduce" to "produce."
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tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sun 3 Nov, 2019 08:33 pm
Many thanks to all of you!
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