Comma Rules
You should use a comma when you have a _______ of 3 or more.
What is a List?
Sixth period is the best class of the day especially when we play jeopardy.
Sixth period is the best class of the day, especially when we play jeopardy.
The group of people who you anticipate will read your paper.
What is Audience?
Rhetorical question, surprising fact, anecdote or personal story, set the scene, or quote.
What is a Hook?
Vista High School Mascott
What is Panthers?
You use a comma when joining two or more:
Nouns
Adjectives
Persons
What is Adjectives?
ex. It was an airy, warm Summer day
Where do the commas go in this sentence?
I had to babysit my brother a 13 year old pre-teen and he drove me crazy.
I had to babysit my brother, a 13 year old pre-teen, and he drove me crazy.
The act of stealing ones ideas or writing and using it as your own.
What is Plagarism?
The most important sentence in your ENTIRE essay
What is a Thesis?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What is FANBOYS?
What is a coordinating conjunction?
You use a comma when joining:
Independent Clauses
OR
Dependent Clauses
What is Independent Clauses?
Where should the comma go in this sentence:
The loud noises gave me a headache but the fireworks were worth it.
The loud noises gave me a headache, but the fireworks were worth it.
Tacts used to pursuade people in a piece of writing.
What is ethos, pathos, and logos?
The part of your essay which addresses the opposing argument
What is Counterargument?
A visual way of organizing concepts, ideas, or relationships in writing.
What is a graphic organizer?
When using quotes, this is where a comma should go
What is: right before the quote begins
ex. MLK's speech, "I Have a Dream" will go down in History.
Correct this sentence:
Although you have to deal with crazy customers, working in fast food pays well.
What is No Changes
A person, place, or thing
What is a Noun?
After every quote in a body paragraph, you should have this many sentences of explanation
What is Two?
Where Miss. Herrera is going to school
What is Claremont Graduate University?
This rule uses commas to emphasize an extra description in a sentence.
What is Isolation?
OR
What is an appositive phrase?
(Ex. The sun, a big ball of fire in the sky, gave me the worst sunburn today)
Correct this sentence:
Scientists recently discovered a vaccine to make your pet live forever however side effects are unknown.
Scientists recently discovered a vaccine to make your pet live forever, however, side effects are unknown.
A word used to describe or modify a noun.
What is an Adjective?
Ex. Big, Smooth, wide, funny, bumpy, etc.
Define Cohesion
The way your Thesis, topic sentences, evidence, and explanation work together in a piece of writing.
Be able to name every person in the room
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