Entry 005: Missing Commas (Rules Project)

As mentioned before, my walks through New York did not yield the grammar mistakes that I was hoping to find.

However, while walking through Crown Heights, Brooklyn, I did come across this message, painted across the brick wall of a public school building.

A grammatically correct welcome to the students would read "Welcome, Students!"

As explained by Jane Strauss on her grammar website*, we need to use a comma to "set off the name of a person directly addressed."  Here, the sign is directly addressing the students of the school, and as such, would need a comma after "welcome."



*http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp