HMS 7-1 Language Arrts Comma Rules - part one
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cynthiabell on January 31, 2012
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Gifted comma test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Items in a Series | 3 or more itemes in a list |
| Introductory Words | Oh, Well, Yes, No, First |
| Nouns of direct address | Names, Titles of people to whom you are speaking |
| Items in a series | Ms. Raines, Ms. Hederniemi, Ms. Matthews, and Mr. King, are the most wonderful teachers in the world. |
| Nouns of direct address | Ms. Raines, I think you are an amazing English teacher. |
| Long, Introductory Prepositional Phrases | Several adjectives between the preposition and its object |
| Long, Introductory Prepositional Phrases | a series of prepositional phrases |
| Long, Introductory Prepositional Phrases | During the long, challenging comma unit, Ms. Raines will show patience to her students. |
| Long, Introductory Prepositional Phrases | [In the room] [at the end] [of the hall], Ms. Raines instructs her students. |
| Interrupters | break into the flow of thought, add no signifigant meaning to the sentence. |
| Interrupters | Ms. Raines, [as you can see], is a fantastic teacher. |
| Conjunctive adverbs | however, moreover, furthermore, |
| Conjunctive adverbs | The students, however, will learn to love commas. |
| Non-essential appositives and appositive phrases | Not necessary! |
| Non-essential appositives and appositive phrases | Ms. Raines, [my teacher], is silly. |
| Compound Sentences | Use Coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) |
| Compound Sentences | Ms. Raines is silly, [but] all teachers are silly sometimes. |
| Parts of a date | comma between the day and the year and after the year if the sentence continues. |
| Parts of a date | November 25, 2010, is a special day because it's Thanksgiving. |
| Parts of an Address | Who lives at Edwards Middle School, [1157 Madden Bridge Road, Central, SC 29630,] in the middle of the night. |
| Titles, degrees following names | Use a comma to set off an abbreviated title or degree following a name. |
| Titles, degrees following names | Ten years from now, Brainy Genius[, Ph.D,] will be a famous, well established doctor. |
| Direct Quotations | Use Commas to separate direct quotations from the rest of the sentence. |
| Parts of Letters | Use a comma after a greeting in a friendly letter abd after the closing in all letters. |
| Two + adjectives before a noun | Use a comma between two or more adjectives before a noun (if the reversal test and/or the "and" test apply). |
| Two + adjectives before a noun | [Complicated, detailed] comma rules are frying my brain in English class. |
| Phrases | a group of words without a subject and a verb |
| Clause | a group of words with a subject and a verb |
| Independent clause | a) Subject, Verv, Complete thought b) can stand alone c) like sentences |
| Dependent Clause | Subject, verb, no complete thought and cannot stand alone |
| Introductory and nonessential participles and participle phrases | ex. Ms. Raines, frustrated by the chattiness by her class, worried about her students level of determination to earn the comma cake. |
| Present Participles | ending with -ing |
| Past Participles | end with -ed -en -t a participle is not the sentence verb |
| Non essential adjective clauses | Use a comma or a pair of commas to set off an adjective clause that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence. |
| Non essential adjective clauses | ex. The comma test [, which will determine the recipients of "the cake,"] will be a breeze for the comma connoisseurs! |
| Adverb Clauses | begin with subordinating conjunctions: after, although, as, because, before, considering (that), if, in order that, since, so that, though, unless, until, when, whenever, weather, while, than, whereas |
| Introductory Adverb Clauses | [When she visited Mr. King's classroom,] Ms. Raines offered sympathy to his students with low grades. |
| Introductory Adverb Clauses | Begin with subordinating conjunctions, you use a comma after this. |
| Comma splice | Two or more independents clauses joined ONLY by a comma and no coordinating conjunction. |
| Run-on | Two sentences that run into each other with no separation by punctuation. |
| Fragment | When a sentence does not have the things it needs to be a complete sentence |
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