Grammar Tips
Commas With Compound Sentences
This clearly worded guide clearly explains how to use commas in compound sentences.
Grammar Tips
Using Commas With Direct Address
This resource offers a short, simple article to show how commas can be used correctly with direct address.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Exercise 3b: Advanced Commas
Type in the word that comes BEFORE the comma or semi-colon and then the comma or semi-colon. Click on "Submit Answers" to see how you did.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Commas: Exercise #1
Practice using commas as you complete this exercise, which requires you to know your comma rules.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas: Exercise #4
Students' proofread sentences and decide the correct placement of commas. Answers are provided for students' to review.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas
This site offers links to five interactive practices using commas and accompanying handouts. Adobe Reader is required.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Commas: Exercise 3
This comma exercise requires students to place commas in boxes within sentences where needed; if none is needed, they place small x's in the boxes. A downloadable handout is provided. Adobe Reader is required for the handouts.
Courseware Solutions
Wordville: Commas: A Fun Way for Kids to Practice Using Commas
In this activity, students add commas as needed to friendly letters. As they click where the commas belong a dragonfly or a butterfly inserts the commas.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]
Practice placing commas after introductory elements in ten sentences.
Other
Ballard Community School District: Comma Worksheet #4 [Pdf]
Practice using commas correctly in sentences with nouns of direct address and in dates and addresses.
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Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Circling Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
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Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Writing Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and practice writing and punctuating sentences that contain interjections.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Where Does the Comma Go?: Introductory Elements
This page, from an online guide to commas by a faculty member from the University of Victoria, explains the rules governing comma usage after introductory phrases.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Avoiding Run on Sentences and Comma Splices
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas With Introductory Elements: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces how to use commas with introductory elements. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Commas with Introductory Elements."
TES Global
Blendspace: Don't Be Psycho Use Commas
A learning module with links to twenty-seven images, videos, texts, and activities about the importance of using commas correctly.
TES Global
Blendspace: Commas 3.w.6.2b
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, websites, images, and videos to use while learning about commas.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ten Minute Grammar Lessons Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lessons are intended to be used by English Language Arts teachers in grades 6-8 for a quick, whole-class review of the rules of comma usage.
Read Works
Read Works: Watch Your Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference! This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Commas
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to use commas to separate items in a list.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Oral Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will use standard proofreading symbols to edit a given manuscript. Students will suggest definitions of vocabulary words based on context clues.
The Economist
The Economist: Economist Style Guide: Punctuation
This resource provides a brief discussion of each of the following types of punctuation: apostrophes, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, full-stops, inverted commas, question marks, and semi-colons. Examples are included for each type of...
