Curated OER
Comma Practice Worksheet
Start by introducing your class to basic comma rules, and then give them this practice sheet. First, learners add commas where necessary, and then they write down which comma rule (or rules) used in each sentence. Great practice!
Curated OER
Comma Practice Worksheet 3
Are you teaching the comma rules in your classroom? This resource packet covers several comma rules, gives examples of each, and provides short practice opportunities for your learners. Answers are not included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns 2
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses and relative pronouns; it explains what an adjective clause requires and the questions it answers in the sentence. It provides a list of relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose,...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Clause Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, but it provides great practice on recognizing clauses. The quiz is twenty questions long with multiple choice answers, looking at independent clauses,...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Clause Quiz 1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Clause Quiz 2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.
Grammarly
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Such as Comma
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about comma rules related to the phrase such as in a sentence. Examples of such as in non-restrictive clauses are included.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The King's English: Defining and Non Defining Clauses
This chapter from the 1908 book by H.W. Fowler defines, explains, and provides examples of two types of relative clauses, defining and non-defining (more commonly known now as restrictive and non-restrictive). The information is very...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas and Non Restrictive Elements
This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas and Non Restrictive Elements: Thumbs Up Work
This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.
McGraw Hill
Mayfield Handbook: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive
This section of the Mayfield Handbook on restrictive and nonrestrictive modifiers and clauses features a definition with links to other parts of the sentence (modifiers, clauses, phrases) along with examples of restrictive and...