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Missing Comma with Nonrestrictive element
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COMMAS!!!!!!!!
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http://coe.unm.edu/uploads/docs/writing-studio/03-errors-page.pdf
http://wic.oregonstate.edu/book/export/html/117
http://www.editavenue.com/writingtip.asp?cid=93827
http://people.umass.edu/curtis/academics/editingtoolbox/punctuationpointers.html
Mission !
To teach the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive elements. Also, to show where to proper place commas in a sentence.
The "elements" are
noun modifiers: relative clauses (starting with who, which, that); participles (e.g. "barking in the night"); and nouns used as "appositives" ("Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, guided his country....")
"Restrictive" Element
A word, phrase, or dependent clause that limits (or restricts) the meaning of the element it modifies while providing information essential to the meaning of the sentence.
Because the restrictive element is vitally linked to the word or phrase it modifies, the two cannot be separated by commas.
"Non-Restrictive" Element
Provides added and often interesting information about its referent but does not essentially define it. The non-restrictive element is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas as indication it could be removed without destroying the sentence's meaning.
Non- Restrictive
"Restrictive" Element
Saying....
Saying...
A man who is afraid to die cannot really live.
Dr. Andrew Murphy, Vice Chairman of the Parents Support Board, spoke at the alumni banquet.
is not the same thing as...
is just as good as saying....
Dr. Andrew Murphy spoke at the alumni banquet.
A man cannot really live.
Examples
The dog who was very friendly sat and waited for his dinner.
A.)Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony until 1898 when it was ceded to the U.S.
B.)Dogs barking in the night drive me mad.
C.)Elmore Leonard's novel Get Shorty is his best.
D.)Elmore Leonard's twenty-eighth novel Get Shorty is his best.
F.)I ate it with gusto even though it was bitter.
Kristana's first doll Malibu Barbie is still her favorite
G.)The boat that sailed on October 25 is the one to which we referred in the contract.
What is wrong with this Sentence?
H.)The store honored the complaints that were less than 60 days old.
I.)The store honored the complaints which were less than 60 days old.