Grammar Check

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When included, and referring to the photo can the sentence below the photo be grammatically correct?


AKARA WATCHING HER DADDY CUT ROSES.

I am no grammar whiz but the only thing I can think of is to have an ‘is’ between Akara and Watching?
I am not too sure though, the current sentence seems correct because you are describing something that has happened already, and not something happening presently.

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CORRECTION: AKARA IS WATCHING HER OLD MAN PIMP OUT THE ROSES.

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Hmmm…interesting.
So, as a caption, and if there was a comma after Akara then it would be absolutely correct?
Anybody else second this?

As a caption, this sentence checks out gramatically. If it was not a caption, the tense would need to be changed to ‘Akara watches’ in order to be gramatically correct. I see no need for the comma. It could be placed there, but I don’t think it’s more or less correct either way.

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My first thoughts were to add the comma also.

Great, thoughtful feedback. Thanks much:)

I found a spelling error.

AKARA WATCHING HER DADDY CUT ROSELIA.

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The original caption is fine. No comma is necessary.

If this were a caption intended for a newspaper, magazine or book and the writer had used a comma, the copy editor would almost certainly remove it.

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Thanks young man:)