Commas

can change everything

7th ELA focus: comma use with conjunctions & how they impact sentence structure

comma use with 3 types of conjunctions

Coordinating Conjunctions

click here for overview

specific lessons: 1-5 click here on C-S

commas in a series: click here

Subordinating Conjunctions

click here for overview

specific lessons: 1-6: click here

Correlative Conjunctions

click here for overview

Comma Rules

the ones you probably learned more recently

Commas w/ Interjections & Interrupters

click here for those lessons

Commas w/ Introductory Elements

  • On Saturday, I take piano lessons.

  • Yesterday, I went to the dentist.

  • for commas with prepositional phrases, click here

Commas w/ Adjectives: click here

  • The Trick: Can you put "and" between them & it sounds natural?

  • Can you switch the adjectives around & have it sound natural?

  • If yes to both questions, use a comma.

  • click here for study on this concept

Commas Rules

the ones you should have learned a long time ago!

Commas with Dates

  • July 4, 1877

  • July 1977

  • Sunday, July 4, 2010

Commas with Geographical Terms

  • city, state

  • Cheney, Kansas

  • Lincoln, Nebraska

Commas in a Series

  • red, white, and blue (list of 3)

  • meat, potato, veggie, and dessert (list of 3 or more)

  • salt and pepper (no comma if joining 2 items)

Other Comma Rules

You'll learn more in high school and be expected to learn the fancy grammatical terms.

So master the fanboys & DCMs now in middle school.