Learn English – Do you usually need a comma before “in this case”

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Example sentence:

This was the first time she played the main character in a film—the movie of her life(,) in this case.

Do I need the comma in this case?

Note: I made a Google search. But since Google omits punctuation, I couldn't find a very satisfactory answer.

Best Answer

Yes and no.

If you were going to include 'in this case' you would write:

This was the first time she played the main character in a film, the movie of her life, in this case.

But to the point, 'in this case' doesn't sound correct here and isn't needed at all. So:

This was the first time she played the main character in a film, the movie of her life.

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