1. From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons Series Mini-Lesson #41

2. Use a comma to separate words in direct address.  Kismet, clean up your room.

3. Use a comma to separate sentence tags from the remainder of the sentence.  No, I won’t write your paper for you.

4. Use a comma to separate contrasting elements from the rest of the sentence.  It is you, not I, that the instructor is looking for.

5. Examples  Don, did you go to school this morning, or did you skip?  Henry, not Donna, left the refrigerator open.  No one, not even Stella, passed the course.  Jessica, are you going to town with us?

6. Use commas to separate sentence tags from the rest of the sentence.  He’s going to Rome in August, isn’t he?  It doesn’t have four legs, does it?  You skipped class today, didn’t you?  I had a car accident, that’s why.