COMMA USAGE NOTES 1.Write 2 Independent Clauses. 2.Write 2 dependent Clauses. 3.Attempt to combine each Dependent clause to 1 Independent Clause. 4.What is the difference between the following: A. Let’s eat Grandma. B. Let’s eat, Granma.

CASE #1 Use a comma to separate THREE or more WORDS, PHRASES or CLAUSES. Bruce bought bagels, bananas, bacon, and bread for breakfast. Stacey promised to say the pledge, sharpen her pencil, and sit down before the bell.

CASE #2 Use a comma to separate two INDEPENDENT CLAUSES with a coordinating conjunction. Shakira gyrates in bikinis, and Chris Brown dances in suits. The game was over, but the crowd refused to leave.

CASE #3 Use a comma to separate a dependent clause followed by an independent clause. When Willie went walking, he saw a weasel. Although Alison adores apples, she inhaled a pomegranite.

COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Coordinating conjunctions are the following 7 words: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So Just remember FANBOYS: ForBut AndOr NorYet So

PRACTICE 1.He left the scene of the accident and tried to forget that it had happened. 2.The closet contained worn clothes old shoes and dirty hats. 3.After surviving this ordeal the trapper felt relieved. 4.After a good washing and grooming the pup looked like a new dog 5.As a celestial goddess she regulated the course of the heavenly bodies and controlled the alternating seasons.

PRACTICE 1.He left the scene of the accident and tried to forget that it had happened. 2.The closet contained worn clothes, old shoes, and dirty hats. 3.After surviving this ordeal, the trapper felt relieved. 4.After a good washing and grooming, the pup looked like a new dog. 5.As a celestial goddess, she regulated the course of the heavenly bodies and controlled the alternating seasons.

BELL WORK 1.He cut himself while he was washing the knives. 2.While he was washing the knives he cut himself. 3.Nice is a word with many meanings and some of them are contradictory. 4.Some words have many meanings and nice is one of them. 5.The contractor testified that the house was completed and that the work had been done properly. 6.Some people refuse to go to the zoo because of pity for creatures that must live in small cages. 7.Because of their opposition to institutions that force creatures to live in captivity some people refuse to go to the zoo.

PRACTICE 1.He cut himself while he was washing the knives. 2.While he was washing the knives, he cut himself. 3.Nice is a word with many meanings, and some of them are contradictory. 4.Some words have many meanings, and nice is one of them. 5.The contractor testified that the house was completed and that the work had been done properly. 6.Some people refuse to go to the zoo because of pity for creatures that must live in small cages. 7.Because of their opposition to institutions that force creatures to live in captivity, some people refuse to go to the zoo.