Comma Errors

Which answer is grammatically correct?

• If you want to succeed you must choose to work.

• If you want to succeed, you must choose to work.

• People who want to succeed, must work.

• You must choose to work, if you want to succeed.

Which sentence demonstrates using a comma to set off an expression that interrupts a sentence?

• No one claimed the lost dog that I found, so I decided to keep her.

• Running across the lawn, a squirrel caught Nala's attention.

• This is the book, that I wanted the most.

• My burger, to tell the truth, is overcooked.

Which punctuation mark is being demonstrated?

• exclamation mark

• parentheses/brackets

• comma

• semi colon

The clowns were scary, the jester was funny.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

Identify each group of words:

Kevin Durant is a good basketball player, LBJ is bad at basketball.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

Identify each group of words:

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

Mark searched the nearly empty refrigerator for a midnight snack his only choices were curdled milk, stale pizza, and grape jelly.

• snack, his

• snack, but his

• snack, so his

• No change needed

Which sentence correctly uses a comma to separate items in a series?

• A) I bought apples oranges and bananas.

• B) I bought apples, oranges, and bananas.

• C) I bought, apples oranges and bananas.

• D) I bought apples, oranges and bananas.

Identify the sentence with a comma splice.

• A) She loves reading, and she visits the library often.

• B) She loves reading, she visits the library often.

• C) She loves reading and visits the library often.

• D) She loves reading; she visits the library often.

Which sentence uses a comma to set off an introductory element?

• A) After the rain stopped, we went for a walk.

• B) We went for a walk after the rain stopped.

• C) We went, for a walk after the rain stopped.

• D) After, the rain stopped we went for a walk.