Preposition and comma

One of our proud advanced yellow belt students, Ms. Taylor, is on her vacation to Hawaii currently, and she sent us this beautiful picture of her sidekick there. Wow~ thank you ma’am!

  1. Should it be “in Hawaii” instead of “to Hawaii”?
  2. Should there be a comma before “ma’am”?

Thanks.

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I think in is better, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with to.

I would not use a comma before ma’am.

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There is some difference between ‘to Hawaii’ and ‘in Hawaii’.
The former suggests that Ms Taylor has left for Hawaii on vacation and the latter that she is currently visiting Hawaii on vacation. (Both are acceptable)

Yes, I would use the comma because the speaker is addressing her.

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One of our proud advanced yellow belt students, Ms. Taylor, is currently on vacation in Hawaii and sent us this beautiful picture of her buddy. Wow~ thank you ma’am!

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Vacation in Hawaii is probably slightly more common but both are used. We are supposed to use a comma before direct address like Ma’am. However, lots of punctuation tends to be left out in internet usage. We often use a kind of abbreviated and slang style in social media posts and texts.

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