Help with Punctuation
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Help with Punctuation
Please advise on how to punctuate the following sentence with commas.
Judy my mother and Tomy my father went to visit Grandpa.
Judy my mother and Tomy my father went to visit Grandpa.
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Judy, my mother, and Tomy, my father, went to visit Grandpa.nse wrote:Please advise on how to punctuate the following sentence with commas.
Judy my mother and Tomy my father went to visit Grandpa.
The only way I can interpret this sentence is that Judy and Tomy are the mother and father of the person who went to visit his/her Grandpa.
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I am rubbish, I wouldn't have put one before and.
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'My mother'and 'my father' are relative clauses , so are surrounded by commas...I think!
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Many thanks Purpleduck. I was assuming the same as you suggested.
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And you can remove the words surrounded by commas without changing the meaning of the sentence.
JD
JD
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They are certainly relativesyoyo123 wrote:'My mother'and 'my father' are relative clauses , so are surrounded by commas...I think!
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Guest55 wrote:They are certainly relativesyoyo123 wrote:'My mother'and 'my father' are relative clauses , so are surrounded by commas...I think!
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