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The reading list includes Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton, among others.
Is the comma correct before "among others"?
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Is the comma correct before "among others"?
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When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma. Check this out ell.stackexchange.com/questions/37772/the-usage-of-among-others
– vickyace
Jun 5 '16 at 22:33
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I would use a comma. But this sort of thing is a judgment call.
– Hot Licks
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Among others were the books by A, B and C. I like the books by A, B and C, among others. Yes, it takes a comma.
– Lambie
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The reading list includes Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton, among others.
Is the comma correct before "among others"?
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The reading list includes Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton, among others.
Is the comma correct before "among others"?
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When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma. Check this out ell.stackexchange.com/questions/37772/the-usage-of-among-others
– vickyace
Jun 5 '16 at 22:33
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I would use a comma. But this sort of thing is a judgment call.
– Hot Licks
Jun 5 '16 at 22:47
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Among others were the books by A, B and C. I like the books by A, B and C, among others. Yes, it takes a comma.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:03
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When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma. Check this out ell.stackexchange.com/questions/37772/the-usage-of-among-others
– vickyace
Jun 5 '16 at 22:33
3
I would use a comma. But this sort of thing is a judgment call.
– Hot Licks
Jun 5 '16 at 22:47
1
Among others were the books by A, B and C. I like the books by A, B and C, among others. Yes, it takes a comma.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:03
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When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma. Check this out ell.stackexchange.com/questions/37772/the-usage-of-among-others
– vickyace
Jun 5 '16 at 22:33
When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma. Check this out ell.stackexchange.com/questions/37772/the-usage-of-among-others
– vickyace
Jun 5 '16 at 22:33
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I would use a comma. But this sort of thing is a judgment call.
– Hot Licks
Jun 5 '16 at 22:47
I would use a comma. But this sort of thing is a judgment call.
– Hot Licks
Jun 5 '16 at 22:47
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Among others were the books by A, B and C. I like the books by A, B and C, among others. Yes, it takes a comma.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:03
Among others were the books by A, B and C. I like the books by A, B and C, among others. Yes, it takes a comma.
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Yes, the comma is fine.
The "academic" section of the Corpus of Contemporary American English includes 358 hits of the string "among others .", i.e. among others is sentence-final position. Of those, 302 instances are separated off with a comma. That shows that native American authors of formal texts accept, in fact strongly prefer, a comma in this context.
The following graphic gives the first 20 hits of the referenced corpus query:
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In a comment, @vickyace wrote:
When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma.
For further reference, see this post on ELL.
A dictionary example without comma's may be found in Collins Dictionary:
He is expected to be supported at the meeting by Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn among others.
Attribution for the example sentence: "Definition of 'among Others'." Among Others Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary. Accessed May 01, 2018. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/among-others.
Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
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@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
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@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
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Yes, the comma is fine.
The "academic" section of the Corpus of Contemporary American English includes 358 hits of the string "among others .", i.e. among others is sentence-final position. Of those, 302 instances are separated off with a comma. That shows that native American authors of formal texts accept, in fact strongly prefer, a comma in this context.
The following graphic gives the first 20 hits of the referenced corpus query:
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Yes, the comma is fine.
The "academic" section of the Corpus of Contemporary American English includes 358 hits of the string "among others .", i.e. among others is sentence-final position. Of those, 302 instances are separated off with a comma. That shows that native American authors of formal texts accept, in fact strongly prefer, a comma in this context.
The following graphic gives the first 20 hits of the referenced corpus query:
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Yes, the comma is fine.
The "academic" section of the Corpus of Contemporary American English includes 358 hits of the string "among others .", i.e. among others is sentence-final position. Of those, 302 instances are separated off with a comma. That shows that native American authors of formal texts accept, in fact strongly prefer, a comma in this context.
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Yes, the comma is fine.
The "academic" section of the Corpus of Contemporary American English includes 358 hits of the string "among others .", i.e. among others is sentence-final position. Of those, 302 instances are separated off with a comma. That shows that native American authors of formal texts accept, in fact strongly prefer, a comma in this context.
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In a comment, @vickyace wrote:
When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma.
For further reference, see this post on ELL.
A dictionary example without comma's may be found in Collins Dictionary:
He is expected to be supported at the meeting by Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn among others.
Attribution for the example sentence: "Definition of 'among Others'." Among Others Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary. Accessed May 01, 2018. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/among-others.
Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
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@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:45
@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:47
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In a comment, @vickyace wrote:
When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma.
For further reference, see this post on ELL.
A dictionary example without comma's may be found in Collins Dictionary:
He is expected to be supported at the meeting by Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn among others.
Attribution for the example sentence: "Definition of 'among Others'." Among Others Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary. Accessed May 01, 2018. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/among-others.
Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
1
@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:45
@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:47
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In a comment, @vickyace wrote:
When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma.
For further reference, see this post on ELL.
A dictionary example without comma's may be found in Collins Dictionary:
He is expected to be supported at the meeting by Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn among others.
Attribution for the example sentence: "Definition of 'among Others'." Among Others Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary. Accessed May 01, 2018. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/among-others.
In a comment, @vickyace wrote:
When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma.
For further reference, see this post on ELL.
A dictionary example without comma's may be found in Collins Dictionary:
He is expected to be supported at the meeting by Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn among others.
Attribution for the example sentence: "Definition of 'among Others'." Among Others Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary. Accessed May 01, 2018. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/among-others.
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Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
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@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:45
@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:47
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Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
1
@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:45
@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:47
Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
Who is vickyace? In any case, all of this and that is misguided. Sorry.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:04
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@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
@Lambie vickyace is a StackExchange user who wrote a comment on this question. Of note, vickyace had a source to cite for their assertion, and this answer includes that source as well as a couple others that support its position. If you have a contradictory source, feel free to write a competing answer.
– Kamil Drakari
May 31 at 16:19
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
There is no one on the page accessed through the link in the answer called vickyace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:28
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:45
joh.cam.ac.uk/search-universal-grammar |Understanding why the principle was abandoned by one language family, but retained by the other, is the central objective of a new project which is being carried out by an international team of language scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Oslo, among others.| That is one example, from a very lah-dee-dah source.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:45
@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:47
@JJJ Has one considered?? The link contains no comments by a vickyrace.
– Lambie
May 31 at 20:47
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When "among others" is the last term, it is used without a comma. Check this out ell.stackexchange.com/questions/37772/the-usage-of-among-others
– vickyace
Jun 5 '16 at 22:33
3
I would use a comma. But this sort of thing is a judgment call.
– Hot Licks
Jun 5 '16 at 22:47
1
Among others were the books by A, B and C. I like the books by A, B and C, among others. Yes, it takes a comma.
– Lambie
May 31 at 15:03