Comma before "in which" / "to which"

Submitted by György Chityil ... on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 22:44

Language English

Hierarchy:

Pronoun

Part:

Sentence

Scope:

POS

Features:

previous.is_word && current.is_preposition && next.text == "which"

Suggestion:

previous.text + ", " + current.text + " " + next.text

External References:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/645/01/

http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/legal/legalwriting.pdf

http://grammartips.homestead.com/nonrestrictivecommas.html

http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaClauses__Restrictive_and_Nonres…

Notes:

used to be /(\w+) (\w+_[IN]+ )?(which)/ added to_TO for "to which"

Description:

Use “that” restrictively, and “which” nonrestrictively. The easy way to remember: which is preceded by a comma; that is not (in 99% of the cases). This check makes sure you have a comma before which.

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