so, i was just glancing around another forum (DON'T KILL ME. D:<) and double-checking my use of commas.
i do tend to overuse them...... a lot. let's just say.
and someone's using this quote to explain commas before names (something one of our self-proclaimed grammar nazis is unaware of, so i've been debating pointing that one out to him. since he seems to care. O___o) and it goes like so:
I’ve considered in general considered names parenthetical elements, but, unless I’m mistake, there are times when it’s not needed, such as:
"My boyfriend Tobias called me today."
In that case we can put commas in before and after “Tobias” but it’s not necessary because the phrase can be considered one unit, but if we reword it:
"Tobias, my boyfriend, called me today."
In this second example the sentence makes sense without the title “my boyfriend” so we treat it as a parenthetical element and the commas are necessary.
and because of the particular subject of the sentence, i thought- in my deluded mind- that i was still on RAF somewhere. the significance that this name had been used instead of just about any OTHER name didn't hit me until a few minutes later. D:
fail.
