Commas
Commas have a variety of uses. A comma looks like this"," and can be used to separate ideas in a sentence. It can also be used to identify independent and dependent clauses in a sentence. Usually commas are used before FANBOYS. Let's look a some examples.
Examples:
The commas are highlighted in orange.
-The commas are used to separate the ideas.
Practice:
Find where the commas need to be placed...
Examples:
The commas are highlighted in orange.
- Jimmy likes to snowboard, but he also likes to play basketball.
- The boy likes to run, skate, and hike during his free time.
-The commas are used to separate the ideas.
Practice:
Find where the commas need to be placed...
- Bobby likes to run bike and hike up mountains.
- The boy likes to eat but he does not eat a lot.
- The alien will play videogames or do his homework.
- Nathan likes to play videogames do homework and have fun.
Ellipses
An ellipses is the Greek word for omission" or "falling." AN ellipses is a series of dots that omit a word or sentence without changing the meaning. Let's look at some examples...
Examples:
Examples:
- "Hello... I guess"
- I went to the store...to take advantage of... it's loyal customers.
Dash
Dashes are normally used like commas or parenthesis, especially with elements that have special forms of punctuation. Let's look at some examples--
Examples:
They can also be used to
Examples:
- All four of them—Billy, Bob, Joe, and Singh—did well in school.
They can also be used to
- Emphasize material in the middle of a sentence
- Break up dialogue
- Replace parenthesis
- Emphasize a period of time
- Name the person who stated a famous quote
- Replace an ellipsis that pauses
Practice:
Identify if there is a comma, ellipses or dash used in the sentences.
Identify if there is a comma, ellipses or dash used in the sentences.
- I--don't know what you're talking about.
- To improve his health, Sven only ate carrots.
- You see... I forgot... to do my homework
- Hello...I guess
- Jim bought the toy, then threw it away.
- Well--I'm not sure what to say to this
- I guess...well...you see...never mind.
- The man went to work, but he did not want to.
- I'm--not sure what to do
- Jon went to school, then he went home.