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Comma when a character is addressed?
If you have a character being addressed in dialogue do you always need a comma? For example, should I write this:
"So what's all this about, Rashmi?"
or is this acceptable:
"So what's all this about Rashmi?"
Comments
I think you can get away without one when you have 'Hello Fred.' But even then I'd tend to say 'Hello, Fred.'
In the first sentence are asking Rashmi what all this is about.
In the second sentence you are asking what is all this gossip concerning Rashmi.
Like the difference between:
Let's eat Grandma, and, Let's eat, Grandma.
We had a thread on this type of comma a couple of months ago- a vocative comma...
Comma!
and who ate grandma?
or, who ate, Grandma?
:)
When writing a characters thought/s do you use punctuation
eg;" I dont know how he does it," she thought. or. I dont know how he does it, she thought.