Restrictive Clause vs. Non Restrictive Clause

Consider the following example:

To add to the confusion, every New Year’s Day a person, according to this Korean counting system, becomes a year older, regardless of his or her actual birthday.

This clause is restrictive as “his or her” refers to “person”. So, then why is there a comma?

Answer

You can remove “, according to this Korean counting system, “ without changing the meaning of the sentence. A non-essential element like this is always surrounded in commas.

“His or her” doesn’t have anything to do with the placement of that comma.

See below:

To add to the confusion, every New Year’s Day a person becomes a year older, regardless of his or her actual birthday.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/05/

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Source : Link , Question Author : G.B , Answer Author : Mako212

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