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Fri 23 Aug, 2024 10:07 pm
His mother Angelina Williams claimed she did not know it was illegal to handcuff a child.
Should Angelina Williams be enclose by commas?
Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
I agree with Roger:
His mother, Angelina Williams, claimed she did not know it was illegal to handcuff a child.
@tanguatlay,
tanguatlay wrote:
His mother Angelina Williams claimed she did not know it was illegal to handcuff a child.
Should Angelina Williams be enclose by commas?
Thanks.
What the hell is the context?!
And FYI? It should be "be enclosed"....
@tsarstepan,
Quote:What the hell is the context?!
Angela Williams was the mother of this poor child:
Three charged after 6-year-old boy in handcuffs attacked by pit bull in Ashland County
I'd leave a link to the story but it's not the kind of thing I feel good about publicizing in a thread about English grammar and usage.
Why does the context matter?
@Mame,
Mame wrote:
Why does the context matter?
Am I not allowed to be curious about a super weird sentence? Especially one nonchalantly describing a crime...?
@hightor,
hightor wrote:
Quote:What the hell is the context?!
Angela Williams was the mother of this poor child:
Three charged after 6-year-old boy in handcuffs attacked by pit bull in Ashland County
I'd leave a link to the story but it's not the kind of thing I feel good about publicizing in a thread about English grammar and usage.
Much appreciated. No link is necessary. That's enough context.
To me, it's a straightforward sentence, nothing weird about it. If it isn't, Roger and hightor would have commented.
Mame commented that no context is necessary, and I agree.
To me, it's a straightforward sentence, nothing weird about it. If it is, Roger and hightor would have commented about it being so.
This replaces the earlier post above.
@tanguatlay,
If it
was, Roger and hightor would have commented about it being so.
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
Mame wrote:
Why does the context matter?
Am I not allowed to be curious about a super weird sentence? Especially one nonchalantly describing a crime...?
Many of his examples are strange (in an of themselves) and have no context, per se. He is just asking for grammar advice so no context is needed for most of them. When it is, we ask and he provides it.
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