Which shows the correct use of commas.

A. Hearing the song "Amazing Grace," always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

B. Hearing the song, "Amazing Grace," always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

C. Hearing the song, "Amazing Grace" always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

D. Hearing the song "Amazing Grace" always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

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Anika Leach

30 May, 20:58

Which shows the correct use of commas.

A. Hearing the song "Amazing Grace," always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

B. Hearing the song, "Amazing Grace," always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

C. Hearing the song, "Amazing Grace" always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

D. Hearing the song "Amazing Grace" always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

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Yair Terry · Answer 1

D: Hearing the song "Amazing Grace" always makes me think of both funerals and the slave-ship captain who wrote its words.

Explanation:

The way the sentence of option D was written is correct because it didn't commas. The gerund phrase Hearing the song "Amazing Grace" is the subject of the verb makes, and there shouldn't be a comma separating the subject from its predicate, as the one used in the example of the option A. In B and C, the meaning is confusing.