1. To the wonderful world of the Quintessential Q
Welcome!
To the wonderful world of the Quintessential Q
and the
Common Comma

2. Your challenge, which you must except!
Come to understand when and how to use the Q and the comma correctly

3. 1st Challenge
Learn to use commas correctly when typing a series (list), dates, and places.

4. Definition of a series A list or set of like grammatical terms.
Example: “I like…
cookies
ice-cream
brownies
candy
Milk
“I like cookies, ice-cream, brownies, candy, and milk”

5. How many people are mentioned in the sentence below?
“Jane Harvey Pepe Tyler and Bunny are absent today.” OR
without commas it's impossible to know how many people are listed. In your groups, discuss how commas help writers make their meaning clear.

6. Possible Answer Jane Harvey, Pepe Tyler, and Bunny are absent today.
TYPE THE ABOVE SENTENCE 5 TIMES BELOW:

7. Possible Answer Jane, Harvey, Pepe ,Tyler, and Bunny are absent today.
TYPE THE ABOVE SENTENCE 5 TIMES BELOW:

8. Mayor Santos' family has two dogs named Chewie and Pal.
ACTIVITY #1- Conquer the Serial Comma PURPOSE: Learn how serial commas are used and can clarify meaning
Using the 3 sentences on the second half of the slide, answer the following questions in black in the space after each question.
In the first sentence, the series items are not separated by commas, but in the second one, they are. Why?
In the third sentence, commas are used for the first series, but not the last one. Why?
How many things need to be listed in order to break them up by a comma?
Mayor Santos' family has two dogs named Chewie and Pal.
Chewie was given his name because he gnaws on bones, chomps on slippers, and chews on shoes.
Mayor Santos, her husband, her children, and their dogs are an amusing and interesting family.
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9. Find the Secret Message in the Series
ACTIVITY #2-Find the Secret Message in the Series PURPOSE: To reinforce using serial commas correctly.
Find the Secret Message in the Series
Type the following sentences with the missing commas next to each 1. and then type the first letter of each word following a missing comma in the blanks below. A secret message will emerge:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
My favorite colors are blue yellow orange, and red, and my favorite objects are clocks umbrellas, and balloons. -
The airline flies to Mexico Canada Austria, Brazil Norway, and Japan
Our teacher read us a vivid unusual surprising exciting, and thoroughly enchanting story.
At the grocery store, we bought potatoes, onions cabbage, butter oranges meat, cookies milk apples sugar, and bread.

10. ACTIVITY #3-Punctuate Dates and Places PURPOSE: Learn how to use commas to set off dates and places .
when writers present dates, they use commas to set off years from the rest of the text.
look at the dates and, based on what you notice, determine the rule for using commas: When a year appears at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence, it is set off with two commas. If it appears at the end of a sentence, only one comma is needed, directly before the year. Type each sentence 3 times.
The town of Timetrip was founded on June 1, 1950. -
Timetrip seems more like a town from June 1, 1900, than a modern town.
On September 10, 1997, Mayor Max's children rode to school in a horse-drawn carriage that was built on August 15, 1888.

11. San Francisco, California
The same rule applies to sentences containing cities, states, and countries, using examples such as these. Type each sentence 3 times.
Timetrip is nothing like Boston, Massachusetts, or San Francisco, California. -
It seems like London, England, during the last century.
San Francisco, California
Boston, Massachusetts

12. Challenge
Apply rules by typing the following challenge statement 3 times, inserting commas where needed.
Would you rather be born on September in Dallas Texas or on September in London England? -

13. Answer
Would you rather be born on September 19,1990, in Dallas, Texas or on September 19,1890, in London, England?
TYPE THIS SENTENCE 3 MORE TIMES: -

14. Q-who?
Type each word 4 times:
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15. Move and stretch the arrows, on the left, from each picture to the matching word

16. Type each word 3 times

17. Use Q in a sentence
Create five different sentences that use as many q’s, in each, as you can. -