Biography titles names and commas

Knowing when to use commas with names and titles in sentences is easy once you know two simple grammar rules.

1. If a name or title is essential to the meaning of a sentence, and you can’t remove it, you don’t use commas.

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However, if the name is not essential, and you can remove it without changing the meaning of the sentence, you wrap the name in commas.

When you apply these two rules to your writing, you will never go wrong.

Quick examples of no commas with names

The punctuation rules for names are similar to defining and non-defining clauses.

When a name is essential or defining, you don’t use commas.

A primary example is when the name is the subject.

Caroline is the head of our technical support team.

In this case, you don’t use a comma.

You can ask Caroline for help with Excel spreadsheets.

She’s an expert.

In the example above, removing the name from the sentence is impossible, so there are no commas.

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