Comma Drama
Which comma rule applies here:
We flew to Nairobi, Bahia, and Port au Prince in the span of seven days.
Separate items in a series or list.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns.
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
Where should the comma be placed?
After the husband and wife left the gym they went to an organic juice bar.
After the word gym
They enjoyed the Honduran professor's history lecture.
What type of pronoun is the word "they"?
a. objective b. possessive c. subjective
subjective
What is a verb?
A word used to describe an action.
Robert Glasper's band won the Grammy for best Jazz album, Beyonce won for best Dance album.
What is missing here?
A coordinating conjunction such as but, while, or and.
Jose and Dawit used Jose's motorcycle to go home.
What pronoun should be used to replace Jose's in the sentence?
his
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun?
That was the most beautiful majestic African sculpture that I've ever seen.
Where does the comma need to be placed and why?
The comma must be placed between beautiful and majestic because you are separating two adjectives.
Hiro saved us from their horrible food.
Identify the types of pronouns in the sentence.
types of pronouns: subjective, possessive, objective
objective (us) possessive (their)
Which of the words below is an adverb?
slow, gentle, deliberately
deliberately
The poet Rumi said Let your life become living poetry
Including the comma, identify where all the missing punctuation should be placed.
A comma should be placed after the word said in order to set off the quote that should be framed with quotation marks.
Kofi and me love to eat jollof rice.
Is the pronoun used in the sentence correct or incorrect? Why or Why not?
Incorrect
The pronoun "I" should be used because it is subjective, while the pronoun "me" is objective.
What are the two major parts of a sentence?
subject and verb phrase/predicate