How to list things in a paragraph examples

According to most style guides, when listing names and titles in a sentence, you have two options:

• Listing the person’s name first, followed by their title, separated by a comma
• Listing the person’s title first, then their name, separated by a comma

Which option you choose is determined by whether the title or the name is more important to the sentence.

Here’s how to list names and titles in a sentence appropriately.

Do you put a comma between a person’s title and their name?

Whether or not you use a comma between a person’s title and their name depends on the kind of title you’re using and the context of the sentence.

How to list multiple names and titles in a sentence

For example:

• My cousin William is an artist.
• My cousin, William, is an artist.

Both versions of this sentence convey that the speaker has a cousin named William who is an artist, therefore both are correct.

However, if we were to put a comma only between the title (“my cousin”) and the name:

• My cousin, William is an artist.

Now the sentence conveys that the speaker is addressing their unnamed cousin about an artist named William.

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