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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas With Introductory Elements
This lesson introduces how to use commas with introductory elements.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Commas After Introductions Exercise 3
This resource provides practice with writing and punctuating sentences with introductory elements.
Other
Letters and Parts of a Letter Worksheets
This resource provides four worksheets that students can use to review the parts of a friendly letter. Each worksheet addresses the need for commas in designated parts of a letter.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma Setting Off Non Restrictive Clauses
This page focuses on understanding what a non-restrictive clause is and that it must be set off by commas. It explains that non-restrictive clauses often use begin with the word "which" and offers examples.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Grammar's Great Divide: The Oxford Comma
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...
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.
Quia
Quia: Commas Galore
An interactive quiz game where students are asked to choose the sentence that uses commas correctly. Answer twelve increasingly difficult questions in order to win the game but be careful. Incorrect answers will send the player back to...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma Usage
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.
English Plus+
English Plus: Commas With Paired Adjectives
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.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Commas in Dates Quiz
Rules for comma use in dates are simple. Review them here, then take the quiz to assess understanding.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comma's Worksheet (Coordinate Adjectives Part 1)
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this worksheet to practice rewriting sentences to separate coordinating adjectives with a comma.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Sentence Structure (Part of Speech)
This slideshow lesson focuses on using sentence structure and parts of speech to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. It explains how to look for parentheses or commas after unfamiliar words to help determine meaning; it also shows...
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]
Practice placing commas after introductory elements in ten sentences.
Other
Grammar Monster: Using a Comma After an Interjection
Notes and examples to show how commas are used with interjections.
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.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa Hyper Grammar: Quotation Marks
The University of Ottawa developed this site about quotation mark usage. Discusses using quotation marks to set off dialogue, titles, short works, and special terms. Also instructs learners in using quotation marks with other forms of...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Punctuating Dialogue
This slideshow focuses on how to punctuate dialogue; it explains the rules for quotation mark and comma use in direct speech, when switching speakers, and when a single speaker speaks in multiple, continuous paragraphs. It provides...
Other
When to Use and Not to Use Quotation Marks
This site provides information on the correct usage of quotation marks, along with examples for each rule discussed.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma in Dates
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Run on Sentences
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a complex sentence.
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