Comma Rules Practice (Marie Antoinette)

When Marie Antoinette's carriage arrived at the French border, she got an extreme makeover.

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Louis XVI was no prince charming, but Marie got to live at Versailles palace with a personal staff of five hundred.

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Marie's Austrian things were dumped: her clothes, her pug dog, and even her name.

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Marie threw big parties, shopped for shoes, gambled, and got ridiculous three-foot-high hairdos.

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• commas surrounding nonessential information

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Maria Antoinette's mother, Maria Theresa, warned the fifteen-year-old that her looks were already fading.

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• commas surrounding nonessential information

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The French people were out of work and starving, and they were starting to hate their queen's guts.

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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, destroyed the monarchy.

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The next king had been born, but the people didn't want kings anymore.

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• commas surrounding nonessential information

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Even though Marie Antoinette was visibly ill, she was thrown into prison.

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Two jailers felt sorry for Marie and got her lace, linens, and better food.

• a comma connecting two independent clauses

• a comma after a dependent clause

• commas surrounding nonessential information

• commas separating items in a list