owned by Harry Jones

[navi tasan]

1) They are going to try to purchase the ABC company owned by Harry Jones.
2) They are going to try to purchase the ABC company, owned by Harry Jones.

If there is only one ABC company, isn't the comma necessary? Doesn't it make the following phrase non-defining (non-restrictive)?

 

[emsr2d2]

Let's start by making the sentence itself grammatical. If "ABC" is the name of the company, the article is wrong. To make things simpler, let's give the company a name - Apricot.

They are going to try to purchase Apricot, a company owned by Harry Jones.

 

[Tdol]

If there is only one ABC company, isn't the comma necessary? Doesn't it make the following phrase non-defining (non-restrictive)?

Yes, in theory, but practice may be looser.

 

[Tdol]

Let's start by making the sentence itself grammatical. If "ABC" is the name of the company, the article is wrong. To make things simpler, let's give the company a name - Apricot.

They are going to try to purchase Apricot, a company owned by Harry Jones.

If he only owned one company, I'd use the.