Comma Rules
You should use a comma to separate dialogue, which you indicate using this punctuation.
What are quotation marks?
What is Brainstorming?
A simple sentence is made up of one of these.
What is an independent clause?
The first line of your essay should grab your reader, and is known by this fishing term.
What is a hook?
Salem shares a nickname and color scheme with the NFL team from this Northwestern city.
What is Seattle?
You can join two independent clauses using a comma and this type of conjunction, such as so or and.
What are FANBOYS?
What is a Venn diagram?
Every independent clause must have a subject and this other word.
What is a verb?
The last line of your introduction serves as the roadmap of your essay and is called this statement.
What is the thesis statement?
Salem has approximately this many students (to the nearest hundred).
What is 900?
You use a comma to separate more than two items in this.
What is a series or list?
The domain name .edu means that the website is affiliated with this kind of institution.
What is a college or university?
A compound sentence is made up of at least this many independent clauses.
What is 2?
Every body paragraph should start with a sentence that tells the reader what the paragraph is about, called this sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
This Salem principal was just awarded the REB award for distinguished educational leadership.
Who is Ms. Knight?
The comma goes here in the following sentence:
After I leave class I am going to take a nap.
What is after the word "class"
This word is used to describe the process of taking information from a source and putting it into your own words.
What is paraphrase or paraphrasing?
A dependent clause joined to an independent clause makes this kind of sentence.
Your supporting details should always be this, not general.
The letters in SOAR stand for these 4 words.
What are Service, Ownership, Achievement, and Respect.
You use commas to offset this kind of information in the middle of a sentence.
What is unnecessary or redundant
This type of chart, named after a letter of the alphabet which it resembles, is useful when choosing your position on an issue.
What is a T-Chart?
To make a compound sentence, you use a FANBOYS combined with this type of punctuation.
What is a comma?
The first sentence of your conclusion should restate this part of your introduction.
What is the thesis statement?
When Salem Middle School was established in 1971, this scandal plagued man was the president of the United States.
Who is Richard Nixon?