Maybe what you saw was a wild animal? A deer or a raccoon or a monkey(,)
perhaps?
Do I need the comma before perhaps?
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Maybe what you saw was a wild animal? A deer or a raccoon or a monkey(,)
perhaps?
Do I need the comma before perhaps?
Best Answer
Good question.
I think if perhaps is used as a sentence modifier, and at the end of the sentence, I see comma there.
Collins Dictionary quotes it with an example:
But then, if you are not sure about the options separated by 'or', I see there's no comma.
Cambridge Dictionary has an entry almost close to your example: