[Grammar] Comas and pronouns (which, that, who) - with or without?!

[Fear not only believe]

Hello everyone! Could someone please look through this picture with sentences and tell me whether my teacher corrected it right?

In the first sentence I omitted "which" (on purose), and omitting "planted" was a typo.
In the third one, the bracket should also include "is" - another typo.

These would be the mistakes I made accidentally. Everything else is what I wanted (intended) to write.
Thank you!

 

[bhaisahab]

Your teacher made some mistakes, in my opinion.

 

[Fear not only believe]

I'm really glad to see I'm right. It's not about the grade, but because I'm really interested in learning English.
Could you be more specific? What mistakes did I make, and which did my teacher?

P.S. My teacher is not a native speaker.

 

[Tarheel]

It would have been better to have posted it on the forum. However, I will be able to do a quick analysis.

 

[SoothingDave]

The first sentence should either have no commas or two commas. I would probably use two (one after "man" and one where your teacher put it).

 

[Tarheel]

Re:

A short, bald man seen running away from the scene of the crime is being sought by the police.
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The underlined phrase is the complete subject. The sentence as written should not be changed. (No comma should go between the subject and the verb that immediately follows it.)

The underlined phrases are the subjects of the following sentences:

The underlined phrase is the complete subject.
The sentence as written should not be changed.
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[Tarheel]

Your teacher got the second sentence exactly right. (You left out a couple of words.)

:up:

 

[Tarheel]

You left periods off the ends of several sentences, and your teacher missed all of them.

 

[Fear not only believe]

OK, so I'm right about that one? Thanks

 

[Fear not only believe]

Well, that was just a homework, not a dictation

 

[Fear not only believe]

You left periods off the ends of several sentences, and your teacher missed all of them.

But I somehow cannot resist the feeling that the sentence could also read as follows:
The old apple tree my grandfather planted sixty years ago needs to be cut down.
In the task it was said to leave out the pronoun wherever possible

Please don't get me wrong: I'm just trying to discuss all possible options, I fully respect your opinion but just want to make sure I'm wrong/right.

 

[Fear not only believe]

And "People that do regular exercise live longer" - what's wrong about that?! I know that "who" instead of "that" would be better, but can we go so far to even mark this sentence as incorrect?

 

[Tarheel]

See: people that exercise

 

[Fear not only believe]

Something went wrong with the quotes, they've all got messed up.

 

[Tarheel]

But I somehow cannot resist the feeling that the sentence could also read as follows:
The old apple tree my grandfather planted sixty years ago needs to be cut down.

Well, your feeling is right.

I fully respect your opinion

Well, you should, because I'm always right.

;-)

 

[Tarheel]

Something went wrong with the quotes, they've all got messed up.

Eh, what quotes?

:-|

 

[Fear not only believe]

Well, your feeling is right.

So no comas in the "old tree" sentence?

Well, you should, because I'm always right.

;-)

Good to know that!

 

[Fear not only believe]

Those in the first page, and also the first one on pg. 2. You see that they're all mixed up, I don't know what happened.

 

[TheParser]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


Hello, Fear Not:

I am certainly not a nitpicker (someone who criticizes little, unimportant mistakes).

But since you made the mistake in the thread title and in post #17, may I respectfully remind you that the word is spelled "comma"?

As you know, there is a big difference between a "coma" and a "comma."


James

 

[Fear not only believe]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


Hello, Fear Not:

I am certainly not a nitpicker (someone who criticizes little, unimportant mistakes).

But since you made the mistake in the thread title and in post #17, may I respectfully remind you that the word is spelled "comma"?

As you know, there is a big difference between a "coma" and a "comma."


James

Thank you, I didn't know that. If I had, I certainly wouldn't have written it wrong twice

"Some people write of patients languishing in a comma, and others refer to inserting a coma into a sentence. A long-term unconscious state is a coma; the punctuation mark is a comma."