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Advanced Comma Review

This document provides a review of advanced comma usage including setting off nonrestrictive elements, separating coordinate adjectives, setting off interjections and asides, separating two independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction, and separating the name of a person being spoken to in a direct address. It includes 10 example sentences requiring commas and indicates the function of each missing comma using abbreviations for nonrestrictive element, coordinate adjectives, interjection/aside, direct address, and independent clauses.

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Advanced Comma Review

This document provides a review of advanced comma usage including setting off nonrestrictive elements, separating coordinate adjectives, setting off interjections and asides, separating two independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction, and separating the name of a person being spoken to in a direct address. It includes 10 example sentences requiring commas and indicates the function of each missing comma using abbreviations for nonrestrictive element, coordinate adjectives, interjection/aside, direct address, and independent clauses.

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Advanced Comma Review


Commas indicate pauses or breaks in a sentence. Use commas to do the following:

Set off nonrestrictive elements. Separate coordinate adjectives.

Trey’s grandmother, who Her exceptional, well-regarded


happens to be a world-class poet, book of poems won a Nobel Prize
teaches English classes at the in Literature.
community college.
Set off interjections and asides.
Separate two independent
Separate the name of a person being clauses connected by a Oh my, that was quite a
spoken to in a direct address. coordinating conjunction. surprising turn of events!
It was hard to hear, given
Thank you, Mrs. Dawson, for your Students can complete their the constant chatter around
excellent presentation on tips for poetry analysis during study me, why Trey’s grandmother
analyzing poetry. hall, or they can choose to do stopped writing.
it at home.

Place the missing commas in the sentences. Then, indicate their functions using the abbreviations below.

NE = nonrestrictive element CA = coordinate adjectives IA = interjection/aside


DA = direct address IC = independent clauses

1. My goodness, what is this amazing new 6. Our pampered dog who enjoys the finer
piece of dog furniture? It looks as though it IA things in life appears satisfied with his new
was built for royalty. designer bed.

2. How are we going to meet up with them for 7. They are going on the half-day excursion
dinner Dad if they’re going ziplining today? so they’ll be back in time for dinner.

3. Frida Kahlo who was married to the 8. Kahlo is best known for her colorful surrealist
famous muralist Diego Rivera is self-portraits that reveal her psychological
considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists. struggles with difficult events in her own life.

4. I do not understand Adelaide how you 9. My enjoyment of these novels is


can follow the intricate plot twists in these comparable don’t you think to your own
mystery novels. affinity for television soap operas.

5. The swift frigid current that circles Antarctica 1 0. The uniqueness of the Southern Ocean had
marks the boundaries of what is officially long been acknowledged by scientists but
known in the U.S. as the Southern Ocean. cartographers did not officially add it to the
map until 2021.

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