Should you put a comma before a person's name that comes at the end of the sentence, Miss Smith? A comma represents a slight pause. Speak your sentence with and without a pause just before the person's name. As you can see, a slight pause belongs there. Therefore, a comma belongs there. The purpose of punctuation is to make your sentences more readable. A comma makes the sentence more readable and easier to understand when spoken out loud. The two are almost one in the same.
Generally, the pronoun "you" comes before a person's name in a sentence. For example, "You should meet John at the park." However, variations can occur depending on the context and emphasis of the sentence.
A sentence is inverted when the verb comes before the subject.
Her shower should precede going to bed. Precede describes something that comes before another thing in time or in order.
Yes, in APA style, the period for a sentence comes before the internal citation. This means that your sentence should end with a period, followed by the internal citation. For example: "This is a sample sentence." (Author, Year).
Before a important thing is going on TV the have to televise it before it comes on.
The most common type of sentence that the pronoun comes first is a question (an interrogative sentence). Example: What is your name? (your name is what) Where is the school? (the school is where)
A comma typically comes before "because" when it is used to introduce a dependent clause in a sentence.
Natural sentences are when the subject comes before the verb. For example: The baby kangaroo hides in its mother's pouch. The subject is kangaroo and the verb is hides. Kangaroo comes before hides so the sentence is natural. An inverted sentence is when the verb comes before the subject. An example is In its mother's pouch hides the baby kangaroo. The subject is kangaroo and the verb is hides. The verb comes before the subject. So this sentence is an inverted sentence.
Natural. In an inverted sentence, the verb comes before the subject.
The antecedent is "this". Strictly, the "ante" in "antecedent" means "before", and so the antecedent should be in an earlier sentence. But this sentence uses an inversion: "it" comes before the explanation of what "it" is. So there does not need to be an earlier sentence. In fact, this sentence about Carla could even be the first sentence in a novel.
The antecedent of a pronoun typically comes before the pronoun in a sentence. The pronoun's role is to refer back to the antecedent and replace it in the sentence to avoid repetition.
A comma typically comes before the word "so" when it is used as a conjunction to connect two independent clauses. For example: "I was feeling tired, so I decided to take a nap."