[Grammar] I work as a programmer, who mostly builds

[NAL123]

Consider this sentence, please:

a) I work as a programmer, mostly building ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database.

I know sentence a) sounds much better than sentence b). But my question is: Is the participle clause above a non-defining relative clause? I mean, can I write:

b) I work as a programmer, who mostly builds ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database. (with the comma)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Consider this sentence, please:

a) I work as a programmer, mostly building ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database.

I know sentence a) sounds much better than sentence b). But my question is: Is the participle clause above a non-defining relative clause? I mean, can I write:

b) I work as a programmer [no comma] who mostly builds ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database. [STRIKE](with the comma)[/STRIKE]

I'm not a grammarian, but I don't see any need for a comma. The who part simply tells us what kind of programmer you are.

If you feel it would read better broken up, you can go all the way: I work as a programmer. I mostly build . . . .

 

[NAL123]

I'm not a grammarian, but I don't see any need for a comma. The who part simply tells us what kind of programmer you are.

If you feel it would read better broken up, you can go all the way: I work as a programmer. I mostly build . . . .

Do you mean sentence a) in the OP and the sentence below mean the same thing?

I work as a programmer who mostly builds ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database. (without the comma)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Do you mean sentence a) in the OP and the sentence below mean the same thing?

I work as a programmer who mostly builds ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database. (without the comma)

It's not a matter of meaning. I would not use a comma because I don't think it belongs there.

It would be like writing: I'm the programmer, who crashed the system. The comma makes the sentence confusing.

 

[Rover_KE]

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[NAL123]

It's not a matter of meaning. I would not use a comma because I don't think it belongs there.

It would be like writing: I'm the programmer, who crashed the system. The comma makes the sentence confusing.

As you can see from post #5, I've asked the same question in another forum. But, it is still unclear to me how to understand sentence a) in the OP. Can I write sentence a) using two separate sentences in this way:

1) I work as a programmer. I'm a programmer who mostly builds ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database.

OR, maybe

2) I work as a programmer. In my work as a programmer, I mostly build ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database.

 

[tedmc]

As you can see from post #5, I've asked the same question in another forum. But, it is still unclear to me how to understand sentence a) in the OP. Can I write sentence a) using two separate sentences in this way:

1) I work as a programmer. I '[STRIKE]m a programmer who[/STRIKE] mostly build ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database.

OR, maybe

2) I work as a programmer [STRIKE] In my work as a programmer, I[/STRIKE] mostly building ASP.NET applications with SQL Server as the database.

It is better to keep your sentence simple and not to repeat words.