Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Comma before a participial phrase at the end of a sentence


Below is an exercise from this website. I'd like to ask if the sentence is correctly punctuated. Should not there be a comma between whale and looking?




My dad spotted the whale looking through his binoculars.



The phrase is nonrestrictive (nonessential) since the subject dad can be identified with or without using the phrase.




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