Using commas and Citing Evidence

Witch one uses commas correctly?

• I love basketball, football, and, soccer.
• I love basketball, football, and soccer.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

What is a comma?

• A slanted line.
• A punctuation mark indicating a pause in a sentence.
• Nothing important 
• Something you use everyday

When do you use a comma?

• In the morning 
• In the middle of the day
• At night
• When you need to separate something in a sentence

Is the sentence below using commas correctly?
Jack, Mike, and Jeff are all friends.

• Correct/Yes
• Incorrect/No

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

Is there a certain limit of how many commas you can use in a sentence.

• Yes
• No

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Commas are,

• a type of punctuation.
• like a period.(.)
• another word for a question mark.(?)
• or something out of this world.(an alien)

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

• Jim is very bold and smart but he doesn't always say nice things to people. 
• Jim is very bold and smart, but he doesn't always say nice things to people. 
• Jim, is very bold and smart but he doesn't always say nice things to people. 
• Jim is very bold, and smart, but he doesn't always say nice things to people. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

• I went to the store and bought apples, oranges and bananas. 
• I went to the store and bought apples, oranges, and, bananas. 
• I went to the store, and bought apples oranges and bananas. 
• I went to the store and bought apples, oranges, and bananas. 

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2C

CCSS.L.5.2A

CCSS.L.7.2A

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

• Our apartment walls, are very thin so we can hear our neighbors talking. 
• Our, apartment walls, are very thin so we can hear our neighbors talking. 
• Our apartment walls are very thin, so we can hear our neighbors talking. 
• Our apartment walls are very, thin so we can hear our neighbors talking. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Which of the following sentences are punctuated correctly?

• The insect, a large, hairy-legged cockroach that has spied my bowl of oatmeal, is crawling across the kitchen table.
• My 486 computer, a modern-day dinosaur chews floppy disks as noisily as my brother does peanut brittle.
• Diane's eleven-year-old beagle Reliable chews holes in the living room carpeting as if he were still a puppy.
• The chief surgeon an expert in organ-transplant procedures took her nephew on a hospital tour.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C