When to Use a Comma with a Prepositional Phrase - By WritingClass
00:0-1 | Hi . I'm here to talk about when to use | |
00:01 | a comma with a proposition , all phrase in a | |
00:03 | sentence . It really depends on how that proposition all | |
00:06 | phrases being used if it's being used as an adjective | |
00:11 | or it's describing the noun in a sentence . It | |
00:15 | depends on if it's restrictive or non restrictive . So | |
00:18 | , for example , the club with all 90 of | |
00:21 | its members showed up at the restaurant . The basic | |
00:25 | information here is that the club showed up in the | |
00:28 | restaurant and the fact that it has 90 members . | |
00:31 | You could take that out of the sentence , and | |
00:33 | it would still make sense . That means it's non | |
00:36 | restrictive , and you put commas around it . On | |
00:39 | the other hand , the flowers from her other admirers | |
00:43 | sat on her dresser . If she's received multiple bouquets | |
00:47 | of flowers and you're trying to be clear , which | |
00:49 | one it is , then that's restrictive , that you | |
00:53 | needed in the sentence in order to keep the meaning | |
00:55 | of the sentence . Whether or not to use a | |
00:58 | comma with a prepositional phrase and a sentence also depends | |
01:01 | on its placement in the sentence . For example , | |
01:05 | we will all have flying cars in the future that | |
01:08 | reads pretty smoothly without a comma there . But if | |
01:11 | you change the order in the future , we will | |
01:15 | all have flying cars now in the future that prep | |
01:18 | positional phrases being used as an introductory phrase . So | |
01:23 | it has a pause after it . So you put | |
01:25 | a comma there . |
DESCRIPTION:
Use a comma with a prepositional phrase if the phrase is non-restrictive, or if the prepositional phrase is being used as an introductory phrase. Avoid using a comma with a prepositional phrase if the sentence reads clearly without the comma. The teacher stands at her white board and shows examples as she lectures.
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