Comma Rules
Cher Horowitz from Clueless is a fan of these two subordinating conjunctions. These are the two-letter subordinating conjunctions.
What are "as" and "if"?
“Because good writing” is an example of this grammatical mistake, which is missing either a subject or a verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
Do your homework. This type of sentence expresses a command or request.
What is imperative?
Other than the period, it’s the most commonly used punctuation mark.
What is a comma?
This state named the state tree the Tulip Poplar and is known as the Bluegrass State.
What is Kentucky?
What are dashes and parentheses?
The points were scored by Jeremy. This type of sentence is commonly considered an error and makes it unclear who is doing the action of the sentence.
What is passive voice?
To be or not to be? That is the question. "To be" is this form of a verb, using the construction to + a verb and that can act as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an infinitive?
This part of speech can follow the words a, an, or the and often has suffixes like -tion, -ence, or -or.
What is a noun?
You know your car is on the money when it can stop on one of these.
What is a dime?
A comma sometimes appears before these types of conjunctions, easily remembered with the acronym FANBOYS.
This type of error combines more than one independent clause (complete sentence) without appropriate punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
This word is the first person singular pronoun and the shortest pronoun by number of letters. It can start a sentence and is generally discouraged in formal, argumentative writing.
What is "I"?
“Because good writing” is an example of this grammatical mistake, which is missing either a subject or a verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
This is the only mythical creature named in a title of a book in the Harry Potter series.
What is a phoenix?
This is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. It begins the sentence: For many people, grammar rules can be very intimidating.
What is a preposition?
Willie was real upset when he lost the Jeopardy game. To correct this sentence, the writer should add -ly to "real" to change it into which part of speech?
What is an adverb?
What is interrogative?
This is a statement of argument that establishes what a writer intends to prove in their writing. It is usually found in the first paragraph.
What is a thesis?
Shakespeare famously called these two "star-crossed lovers."
Who are Romeo and Juliet?
Commas often set off these types of elements in sentences that add additional information not necessary to the meaning of the sentence. For example, "Jeremy, a classically trained percussionist, will perform his senior recital tomorrow."
What is a nonrestrictive element?
(Also accept "parenthetical" or "appositive")
The name of the type of error shown here:
Gina loves cooking, she loves making casserole.
What is a comma splice?
Wow! This part of speech is a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning. It often appears at the beginning of a sentence punctuated by a comma or exclamation mark.
What is an interjection?
In the sentence, “Sailing is fun,” sailing is this, also called a verbal noun.
What is a gerund?
This is the only president who served more than two terms.
Who is FDR? (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)