Comma Teacher Resources

"Today we're going to talk about using commas in dialogue," said David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians.

David and Paige, KA's resident grammarians, cover appositives and how to use commas along with them.

Use this site for recognizing when to use commas. Includes examples.

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.

The University of Ottawa's Writing Center developed this site. The major sections of the site are "Comma Usage" and "Superfluous Commas." Right and wrong examples are included, along with links for definitions.

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.

Site describes and identifies how and when to use the comma in letter writing. Examples provided.

This lesson focuses on using commas in a series; it defines series and offers examples of series of words and series of phrases. It discusses the need for parallel construction of the items in a series and how to punctuate them...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this worksheet to practice rewriting sentences to separate coordinating adjectives with a comma.

We use appositives to redefine or clarify a noun phrase; test your knowledge in this exercise!

Find and use commas to set off dialogue, in tag questions, for direct address, and for yes-and-no responses.

This site provides the answers to six frequently asked questions regarding punctuation. For example, "Should I use a comma before AND in a series?" The question "Do commas and periods go inside our outside the closing quotation mark?" is...

Brief tutorial on how to use some of the most confusing punctuation marks: colon, semicolon, comma, dash, and the apostrophe.

This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of commas with coordinating conjunctions and items in a series. It also provides a practice activity.

Learn how to use commas to punctuate a written list of people, things, actions, or events.

A clear explanation, with examples, of how to decide when to use a comma between adjectives. Learn the difference between paired, or coordinate, adjectives, and cumulative adjectives.

This fifteen-item learning exercise will help you determine how well you understand how to use commas with introductory elements in a sentence.

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...

Get a clear understanding of coordinate adjectives and the comma rule that applies to them.

Lists, defines and describes the uses of many elements of English punctuation, including the period, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, quotation, hyphen, and dash. Includes several examples.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...

The proper use of quotation marks is explained and shown with examples in this excerpt from H.W. Fowler's The King?s English, 2nd ed. (1908), a writing primer used in the early 20th century.

This site discusses the three major uses of the semicolon and provides examples for each of the uses. Also discusses the use of the colon.

Here's a site from the Capital Community College to show the correct and incorrect way to use or not use commas.