MP Using Commas

Unnecessary Commas

Student Workbook pages 21 - 31

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​Learning Target

Recognize when to delete unnecessary commas.

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Poll

Self-Assessment

Determine the number that corresponds to your confidence level in your knowledge of the subject before the lesson.

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2.3.1 Unnecessary Commas

Jasmine, walked next door to get her backpack.

• A single comma never separates a subject and verb.

Jasmine, the president of the junior class, walked next door to get her backpack.

• Two commas around information function like parenthesis. The information is not vital to the sentence.

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2.3.1 Unnecessary Commas

Jasmine took, her backpack out of the door.

• This comma is blocking the flow of the sentence. Get rid of it!

Jasmine took her backpack out of, the room.

• What's the purpose of this comma?

Jasmine took her backpack, the blue one with the broken zipper, out of the room.

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​Comma Rules

1. Do not use commas that disrupt sentence structure.

2. Only put commas where you know you need them.

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Open Ended

2.3.2 - Deleting Commas

1. So, biologists decided, to dissect the mutated frogs themselves.

Directions: Type the sentence correctly.

Open Ended

2.3.2 Deleting Commas

2. Growing up, on the beaches of Australia, Adrian Buchan would one day become a world-renowned surfer.

Open Ended

2.3.2 Deleting Commas

Athletes, typically, find, that getting enough sleep at night plays a huge role in their endurance.

Multiple Choice

2.4.1 - Set One - I Do

1. It didn't take long, though for the grumpy Rottweiler to trot back to his bed to protect his mammoth-sized chew toy.

• NO CHANGE

• take, long though,

• take long though

• take long, though,

Multiple Choice

2.4.1 - Set One - I Do

2. In other words, the main equipped with the sword sharp enough, to slay a dragon, will save the kingdom.

• NO CHANGE

• enough to slay a dragon

• enough, to slay a dragon

• enough to slay a dragon

Multiple Choice

2.4.1 - Set One - I Do

3. I'm afraid those of us, who ate at the Chinese buffet last night, will likely have an upset stomach.

• NO CHANGE

• us who ate at the Chinese buffet, last night,

• us who ate at the Chinese buffet last night,

• us who ate at the Chinese buffet last night

Multiple Choice

We Do - Set 2

4. In other words, the camp was outfitted with the emergency rations needed , to survive the blizzard, the hikers were soon to face.

• NO CHANGE

• rations needed to survive the blizzard

• rations, needed to survive the blizzard

• rations needed to survive the blizzard,

Multiple Choice

We Do - Set 2

5. Wearing athletic shoes, admittedly, sound like a trivial issue to discuss in a dress code meeting.

• NO CHANGE

• shoes, admittedly sounds

• shoes admittedly, sounds

• shoes admittedly sounds,

Multiple Choice

We Do - Set 2

6. It took the athletic community many years to understand and publicly recognize that women were a force to be reckoned with in the sport of boxing.

• NO CHANGE

• understand,

• understand:

• understand them

​Sum It Up - When to use commas

1. With conjunctions to connect two independent clauses

2. To separate items in a series

3. To set off parenthetical elements

4. After an introductory word or phrase

5. To link two equal modifiers not joined by a conjunction.

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​Sum It Up - When to delete commas

1. When the comma disrupts correct sentence structure

2. When the comma disrupts the sentence flow

3. When the comma confuses meaning

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Poll

Self-Assessment

Determine the number that corresponds to your confidence level in your knowledge of the subject after the lesson.

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Exit Ticket

• Go to your Mastery Prep account through Clever.

• Go to lesson Unnecessary Commas.

• Complete your 3 exit tickets.

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You Do

• Complete sets 3-5.

• Fill in your Zipgrade sheets.

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