Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Standard Punctuation Power Point
Learn about using end marks, commas, semicolons, and apostrophes correctly. Practice identifying correct usage in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Using Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]
This worksheet requires that you identify correctly punctuated sentences with introductory elements, then correct those which are incorrect.
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Cayuga Community College: Clauses, Phrases, and Commas [Pdf]
Learn about phrases, dependent and independent clauses, and how to use commas appropriately with clauses and phrases.
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Library Online: Colon and Semicolon Punctuation in Writing
Rules and examples in list form demonstrating the proper use of both the colon and semicolon.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
In this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of story...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Avoiding Comma Splices and Run Ons
An informational page outlining the definitions and uses of comma splices, run-on sentences, and fused sentences. A great resource for students struggling with these in their writing.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
California State University
California State University Domingues Hills: Comma Usage: Introductory Phrases
This fifteen-item instructional activity will help you determine how well you understand how to use commas with introductory elements in a sentence.
The Tongue Untied
University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Semicolon
Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Commas in Dates Quiz
Rules for comma use in dates are simple. Review them here, then take the quiz to assess understanding.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma
This page focuses on comma use; it explains the importance of the comma and provides an example of how drastically a comma can change the meaning of a sentence. It also provides links to 38 different pages of comma rules and examples.
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Grammarly Blog: What Is a Comma?
This page explains that a comma is a "soft stop" in writing and provides examples of its use.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Usage
This page focuses on some of uses for commas and provides examples of each. These rules include separating items in a series, separating repeating words, to offset information, noun of address, and even change nouns to verbs.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Between Two Nouns in a Compound Subject or Object
This page focuses on the misuse of a comma by placing one between the two nouns in a compound subject or object. It provides examples of its misuse and explains why it is not correct.
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Grammarly Blog: When to Use Commas and When Not
This page focuses on the uses and misuses of commas. It provides examples of comma uses and explains when the commas are unnecessary.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Within a Comparison
This page focuses on the misuse of a comma by separating the two items being compared. No comma is needed before the conjunction in a comparison unless it includes a non-restrictive clause. Examples of both are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Between Correlative Conjunction Sets
This page provides the rules and exceptions for the use of commas when using corratative conjuction sets such as either or, or neither nor, or not only but also. No commas are needed between them unless the comma is needed for other...
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Before But
This page focuses on the use of a comma before the coordinating conjunction "but" only if it is in front of an independent clause. Examples of proper and improper uses are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma in Dates
This page focuses on the use of commas when writing dates; a comma is used to separate the day from the month, and the date from the year. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma After Question Mark
This page explains how to puctuate a direct quotation that ends in a question mark or an explanation point. If the quote comes before the attributive tag, no comma is needed; if the attributive tag comes before the quote, a comma is...
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Splice
This page focuses on the misuse of commas by using them to connect two independent clauses, resulting in a comma splice. It offers examples and suggestions for correcting them. It also provides exceptions to the rule with examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma With Subjects and Verbs
This page focuses on the misuse of a comma when it is used to separate the subject of the sentence from the verb. It provides examples of such sentences and one exception to the rule.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma After Introductory Clauses
Rules and examples for using commas correctly with an introductory clause.