{"id":861,"date":"2012-12-11T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2021-11-24T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:57:44","slug":"commas-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/commas\/commas-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Commas in Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rule \u2013 <\/strong>Use commas to set off the name or title of a person directly addressed.<br \/>\n<strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Will you, Aisha, do that assignment for me?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yes, Doctor, I will. <\/em>NOTE: Capitalize a title when directly addressing someone.<br \/>\n<em>Joshua, please remember to buy lettuce.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Please remember to buy lettuce, Joshua.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule &#8211; <\/strong>Use commas to surround degrees or titles used with names. Commas are no longer required around <em>Jr. <\/em>and <em>Sr. <\/em>Commas never set off <em>II, III, <\/em>and so forth.<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Al Mooney, MD, knew Sam Sunny Jr. and Charles Starr III. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\n1A. The defendant has accused you Mr. Dempsey of trying to steal his credit card.<br \/>\n1B. The defendant has accused you, Mr. Dempsey of trying to steal his credit card.<br \/>\n1C. The defendant has accused you, Mr. Dempsey, of trying to steal his credit card.<\/p>\n<p>2A. The injury to Robert Griffin III does not appear to be serious.<br \/>\n2B. The injury to Robert Griffin, III does not appear to be serious.<br \/>\n2C. The injury to Robert Griffin, III, does not appear to be serious.<\/p>\n<p>3A. I am sorry professor that my paper is late.<br \/>\n3B. I am sorry, Professor, that my paper is late.<br \/>\n3C. I am sorry, professor, that my paper is late.<\/p>\n<p>4A. Grover Washington Jr. has an appointment today with Orin Scrivello DDS.<br \/>\n4B. Grover Washington, Jr. has an appointment today with Orin Scrivello, DDS.<br \/>\n4C. Grover Washington, Jr., has an appointment today with Orin Scrivello, DDS.<br \/>\n4D. Grover Washington Jr. has an appointment today with Orin Scrivello, DDS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><br \/>\n1C. The defendant has accused you, Mr. Dempsey, of trying to steal his credit card.<br \/>\n2A. The injury to Robert Griffin III does not appear to be serious.<br \/>\n3B. I am sorry, Professor, that my paper is late.<br \/>\n4D. Grover Washington Jr. has an appointment today with Orin Scrivello, DDS.<br \/>\nNOTE: Answer \u201c4C. Grover Washington, Jr., has an appointment today with Orin Scrivello, DDS,\u201d also is acceptable but the commas surrounding <em>Jr.<\/em> are no longer required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule \u2013 Use commas to set off the name or title of a person directly addressed. Examples: Will you, Aisha, do that assignment for me? Yes, Doctor, I will. NOTE: Capitalize a title when directly addressing someone. Joshua, please remember to buy lettuce. Please remember to buy lettuce, Joshua. Rule &#8211; Use commas to surround [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commas"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}