I am writing a little note to a person who returned my lost wallet. Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
Please accept the cash enclosed herein, as a token of my gratitude.
What is confusing me is whether there should be a comma before the phrase "as a token of my gratitude"
My guess is that as the only cash enclosed is the cash offered as a gift, the information is non crucial, making the phrase non-restrictive clause, and therefore comma would be required.
Best Answer
No! You can not put a comma before "as a token of my gratitude."
The phrase is a restrictive clause even in your context. "as a token of my gratitude" depends on "Please accept the cash enclosed herein." You cannot offset the first sentence by a comma.
What makes it dependent? The word "as" makes it dependent. It is used as an adverb, not conjunction.
You can say it like the following ways:
1. When you start or begin a question with a dependent clause, you put a comma after it.