Comment on Germans: what genocide?
verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 months agoOkay, yes, those are all valid places to put commas, good job. None of them are grammatically necessary.
Comment on Germans: what genocide?
verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 months agoOkay, yes, those are all valid places to put commas, good job. None of them are grammatically necessary.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Good point!
Interesting, anywhere I can read about grammatically necessary vs. recommended yet unnecessary commas? (Perhaps on the first search result for that question heh)
verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is a decent article, at least for the most part: I actually don’t like their examples for the “Preposition of Time” stuff at all, the versions with commas are just bad writing.
But basically it just comes down to whether the sentence/clause can be parsed unambiguously without the commas. There is no syntactical difference between “I as a German asked…” and “I, as a German, asked…”. It’s entirely a style choice.