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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: When to Use Commas and When Not

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Grammarly Blog: Comma Within a Comparison

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Grammarly Blog: Comma Emphasizing Contrasting Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the use of commas around contrasting ideas to emphasize that the subject has been modified; examples are provided. Signal words for contrasting ideas include not, unlike and never.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a complex sentence.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Comma Before But

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Grammarly Blog: Comma in Dates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Grammarly Blog: Comma Before Too

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the use of commas to emphasize the word "too" in a sentence; the use of one, two, or no commas depend of the use of "too" and its placement in the sentence.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Comma Splice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Grammarly Blog: As Well as Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains that the use of the prhase "as well as" in sentences requires a judgement call; it usually does not require the use of a comma unless it is part of a non-restrictive clause, but exceptions apply. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Comma Before Parenthesis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the proper use of commas with parenthesis: no comma before a parenthesis, no comma after a parenthesis unless it is needed for another reason such as a long introductory clause in a complex sentence, and no commas if...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Oxford Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using a comma before the conjunction in a list.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Comma Use Around Interrupters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the need for commas around interrupters in sentences and provides examples. Common interrupters include in fact, to say the least, however, generally speaking, sadly, happily, and unfortunately. Nouns of address can...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Unnecessary Comma in a Complex Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a complex sentence.
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The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Punctuation: Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site features a list of eleven simple rules for comma usage. Come and sharpen your grammar skills when you visit this educational resource.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Punctuation: Comma Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose the correctly punctuated sentences in this fourteen-question quiz.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Watch a video and click through a nine-slide presentation to learn where commas came from, how they are used properly, and when they should not be used. [7:27]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cool, Cool Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on 4 basic comma rules that cover 85% of all comma use: series, compound sentences, direct address, and introductory clauses. It provides an audio clip explaining these 4 rules and 5 short slide shows: one for each...
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University of North Carolina

Commas, Commas and More Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do you become a comma super hero? Use this awesome resource to learn more about commas. Students and teachers can brush up on their comma skills when they explore this educational site.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Rules for Comma Usage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples of how to use commas correctly in sentences.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Comma Usage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this comma quiz, students read each of two paragraphs and insert necessary commas. When finished with both paragraphs, they click "Explanations" to see the correct comma placements. Java is required. Links are also provided to "Guide...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Commas: Quick Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tutorial that provides strategies when proofreading for commas.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Grammar's Great Divide: The Oxford Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you read "Bob, a DJ and a clown" on a guest list, are three people coming to the party, or only one? That depends on whether you're for or against the Oxford comma- perhaps the most hotly contested punctuation mark of all time. When...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Comma Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Using Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Do you know how to use commas properly? Use this website to learn more about these pesky punctuation marks.