Is this sentence correct?
"In 1802, Breguet, received the gold medal at an exhibition of industrial products and sat at the table of the first consul."
Are the commas in the right places? I think this sentence is wrong but my book says it's right.|||I don't care what your book says, there should be no comma after Breguet.|||Remove the comma after Breguet. Then you'll have sentence that's grammatically correct. However, the syntax is a little off. The gold metal doesn't naturally fit with sitting at a table. It might be better to say "In 1802, Breguet received the gold medal at an exhibition of industrial products and he also sat at the table"....etc.|||In 1802, Breguet received the gold medal at an exhibition of industrial products and sat at the table of the first consul.
that sounds right to me
If you say it out loud you don't stop after breguet|||Any sentence should follow S+V+O (subject+verb+object) rule.
According to the rule, there should be no comma after the subject or the conjunction 'and'', only the verb.
This kind of mistakes are called 'Printer's Devil"|||You must remove the comma after Breguet. It definitely does not belong there.
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