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THE COMMA!

,. THE COMMA!. WAHOO!. How do I know when to use a comma?. Compound sentences After a sentence opener, subordinate , or dependent clause. To off-set nonessential information in your sentence Setting off Additions at the end of sentences To separate 3 or more things, actions, or phrases.

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THE COMMA!

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  1. , THE COMMA! WAHOO!

  2. How do I know when to use a comma? • Compound sentences • After a sentence opener, subordinate , or dependent clause. • To off-set nonessential information in your sentence • Setting off Additions at the end of sentences • To separate 3 or more things, actions, or phrases

  3. Commas In a Series Use commas to separate a series of three or more things, actions, or phrases. Commas in a series separate items or actions so the reader can identify each intended item. In other words, use commas as separators to keep the items or actions in discrete chunks and to ease communication. WATCH OUT! You’ll also need a CONJUNCTION before your last item in the series in addition to the commas, unless you are writing a sentence for a staccato effect.

  4. Let’s see what happens if we don’t use commas …. Okay … So what?! I don’t like rap but I do like Outcast Eminem Black-Eyed Peas. What’s missing? What does this sentence communicate?

  5. That’d would be one big super-band, but I think they work better separate. Without commas and a conjunction, it sounds like Outcast, Eminem and Black-Eyed Peas are all one item.

  6. What I wasn’t used to was having his smell back, the smoke from his Camel cigarettes, his Old Spice aftershave, the shoe polish he used on his boots. All those father odors, filling up the house. My mother opened every window, waxed the wooden furniture, sprayed room freshener in every corner. She scrubbed the tiles on the bathroom floor, scrubbed the dog’s water bowl, scrubbed her hair, her hands, her face, shiny. Then she sat in her convertible and wept it all away, all but the smell. “I can’t scrub the air,” she said. And so he was there, but not really. Where was he? [p. 29] --- KathiAppelt, My Father’s Summers

  7. TRY IT!

  8. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!? = MEANING

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