Do I have to put a comma before the name?
Do I need to put another comma before the name in this sentence?
“That’s really great, Tim, that you…”
I'm always unsure about that.
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Hello, Annalena!
The two answers you have received so far are pleasing for a comma – and they are right. But better than the pure abdominal feeling it is natural to know the corresponding rule or the justification:
The comma must be in such cases because it is a push-in that – attention, now it comes – also Exhausted can be changed without the meaning of the sentence statement changing. And such an insertion (not only speeches, but also everything else) is delineated from the “mainstream” of the sentence both after “front” and after “backward”. —
Now clear for the rest of life?
Best regards
Achim
A comma before the name would definitely not be invalid.
Yeah, I’d write. If it were a dear Tim, there would definitely be one
Thank you.
This isn’t “toll Tim” (What? Is that great or Tim?), but just “toll”.
Tim is an inserted address to be separated by commas: “That’s really great, Tim, that you’ve cut off so well.” Other examples: