Frank and Ernest by Thaves for August 05, 2012
August 04, 2012
August 06, 2012
Transcript:
Robotics Frank: Ernie, my latest model of the robot politician has some great upgrades! Frank: I installed a coin slot so it can receive money at any time! Frank: The audio tuner is locked onto a single frequency so it won't have to listen to opposing points of view! Frank: There's a reset feature to change policy positions with the touch of a button! Frank: And I fixed the electrical shorts which caused fires in the previous model... Frank: ...this model won't be recalled!
Personally, I’m not seeing the extra comma today. “My latest model of the robot politician” describes Ernie, so it’s not necessary to understand the sentence. Therefore, we set it off with commas.
You could just say “Ernie has some great upgrades”, which would make sense, and that’s why commas go around the phrase above.