2023-11-21 10:00:03
When a vocative appears before or after words like gracias, cheers, hola, bye o welcome, is written between commas: “Thank you, teacher”, instead of “Thank you teacher”.
In the media it is common to find phrases in which the vocative is not between commas: “Congratulations champions”, “Goodbye paper book; be welcome e-book” or “Comrade, thanks for the help”, where champions, paper book, ebook y partner They are vocative.
In this sense, the Spelling of the Spanish language notes that vocative is “the word the group of words that They refer to the interlocutor and are used to call him or address him explicitly.». Furthermore, regarding the scoreexplains that “they are always written between commas, even when the statements are very brief, as in structures of the type No sir; Yes woman».
Thus, in the previous examples the appropriate thing would have been to write “Congratulations, champions”, “Goodbye, paper book; be welcome, e-book” and “Companion, thanks for the help.”
This same affects the letter headings or electronic messagesin which it is appropriate to write «Hello, Ana:», «Good morning, colleagues:»instead of “Hello Ana:” or “Good morning colleagues:”, well Well y companions They are in these cases vocative.
Phrases like “Congratulations to the champions” and “Goodbye to the paper book, hello to the electronic book” would be different, in which the speaker does not directly address the champions or the book, but rather mentions them in the third person. In them, these same words are no longer vocative and, therefore, are not written between commas.
See also
➤ goodbye sadness / goodbye, sadness
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