Question

Choose the sentence (s) which is/ are punctuated correctly.

1. Yes, Jagrit, you were right about that answer.
2. Yes Jagrit, you were right about that answer.
3. I saw our town’s ex-Mayor Prakash Kumar in the mall.
4. I saw our town’s ex-mayor in the market.

Options

• I, III

• I, III, IV

• I, IV

• II, III

Answer 1

I, III, IV are the correct options.
'Yes', the adverb of affirmation, is always followed by a comma. A person's name used for addressing is also followed by a comma. So, II is incorrect. III does not require parenthetical commas for the ex-Mayor's name because 'ex-Mayor' is his title just like 'Doctor Prakash Kumar'. Therefore, both III and IV are correct.