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To: Gene Eric
Missing commas punctuation or grammar?

YouTube pranksters dupe anti-vaxxer, Piers Corbyn, into...

The use of commas here (to signalize apposition) would definitely be FALSE!

If, however, the term "anti-vaxxer" had been proceeded by an "an"...

Regards,

Full disclosure: I am a Technical Editor; my wife (who agrees with me) has a Master's in Linguistics.

7 posted on 08/01/2021 12:18:51 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

But the ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘Piers’ refer to the same thing. How is that not an apposition?


9 posted on 08/01/2021 1:02:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: alexander_busek

I see it now — “anti-vaxxer” in the form of an adjective.

But “an” before any adjective doesn’t necessarily work.


12 posted on 08/01/2021 1:23:35 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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