Identify the sentence that is punctuated correctly.
a Give me a call tomorrow, veronica, when you get home, so we can discuss the details of the upcoming event.
b. Give me a call tomorrow, Veronica, when you get home so we can discuss the detail of the upcoming event.
c. Give me a call tomorrow, Veronica when you get home, so we can discuss the detail of the upcoming events.
Give me a call tomorrow Veronica when you get home so we can discuss the details of the upcoming event.
Or --
When you get home tomorrow, Veronica, please give me a call so we can discuss the details of the upcoming event.
A is the correct answer.
Besides the typo of not capitalizing the "V" in Veronica's name, A is grammatically correct.
This is a terrible sentence. The words "when you get home" should be omitted.
Either that, or it should be expressed in two sentences.
I find it hilarious how sentence b stole the comma after "home" from sentence a, but forgot to put it before "Veronica." So, the correct sentence is a: "Give me a call tomorrow, Veronica, when you get home, so we can discuss the details of the upcoming event."
The sentence that is punctuated correctly is option B: "Give me a call tomorrow, Veronica, when you get home so we can discuss the detail of the upcoming event."
To identify the correctly punctuated sentence, we should look for proper comma usage. In this sentence, there are two commas used correctly. The first comma is after "Veronica" to set off the name as an appositive, providing additional information about the person being addressed. The second comma is used before the coordinating conjunction "so" to separate two independent clauses in a compound sentence.
Option A: This sentence has a comma after "Veronica," which is correct, but it is missing a comma before "so." Without this comma, the sentence could be interpreted as a run-on sentence.
Option C: This sentence has a comma after "Veronica," but it is missing a comma before "when." Without this comma, the sentence could also be interpreted as a run-on sentence.
Option D: This sentence is missing both the commas after "Veronica" and before "when," making it a run-on sentence.
Therefore, option B is the sentence that is correctly punctuated.