Commas

What is a prepositional phrase?

• Answers the questions Who? and Why?
• Answers the questions When? and How?
• Answers the questions When? and Where?
• Answers the questions What? and Why?

When should you use the Oxford comma?

• Before the word 'because'
• After a conjunction
• Never
• In a list of 3 or more items

'And,' 'but,' and 'so' are examples of...

• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Oxford Commas
• Verb Phrases

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

When do you put a comma before 'and,' 'but,' and 'so'?

• When there is a prepositional phrase
• When you can separate it into two complete sentences
• Whenever you feel like it
• If 'because' is in the sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

When a complex sentence can be broken out into two simple sentences, you put a comma before...

• The word 'because'
• The prepositional phrase
• The last word
• The conjunction ('and,' 'but,' and 'so')

All of the following are examples of prepositional phrases EXCEPT...

• River  Bend Middle School
• After school
• On the phone
• At the mall

Which rule does this sentence break?  Jakes likes 2-hour delays, because he gets to sleep in.

• Oxford comma
• Prepositional Phrase
• Because
• Conjunctions

Which rule does this sentence break?Last night, it was really cold so we had a 2-hour delay today. 

• Because
• Oxford Comma
• Prepositional Phrase
• Conjunctions

Which rule does this sentence break?During the 2-hour delay, Ms. Svitek read played with her kittens and called her mom.

• Because
• Conjunction
• Oxford Comma
• Prepositional Phrase

Which rule does this sentence break?The first reason 2-hour delays are fun is, each class is shortened.

• Prepositional Phrase
• Because
• Transitions
• Conjunctions