Grammar: Commas
These websites teach about comma usage. Find out when to use commas and how to avoid comma splices. Includes interactive activities and quizzes to test students knowledge of comma use.
Grades
- 2,
- 3,
- 4,
- 5,
- 6,
- 7
Links
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Commas: How They are Used: Presentation
This presentation talk about basics rules and purposes for comma usage: changing the meaning of a sentence/title, separating items in a list, breaking up longer sentences into smaller parts to make more sense, to separate extra information that is added, to break up groups of numbers into thousands, when writing a date, and inside quotation marks.
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Using Commas
Here is another informative site about how to use commas. Includes several interactive exercises.
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Comma Rules
These are some basic rules for using commas. Includes examples.
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Commas
This easy to understand list of comma rules includes examples.
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Proofreading for Commas
Here are some suggestions for proofreading your writing to see if you used your commas correctly.
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Comma in a Series
This site links to PDFs with activities for practicing using commas in a series.
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Going to Work with Commas Interactive Activity
This flash animation allows students to practice using commas in place of extraneous conjunctions in writing.
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Practice Using Commas
This online activity allows students to identify incorrect usage of commas.
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Writing objects in lists (using commas)
In this interactive activity, students are given sentences that they are asked to rewrite by getting rid of excess conjunctions and using commas instead to create sentences containing lists.
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Commas for Lists
This activity provides opportunity to practice guided instruction with students regarding using commas in lists.
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Commas in Lists Activity Sheet
Practice using commas appropriately in lists with this activity sheet.
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General Comma Usage Activity Sheet
Review general rules for comma usage with this practice activity.
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More practice Using Commas
Continue practice effectively using commas.
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Comma Confusion Interactive Activity
In this activity students practice identifying sentences that are missing commas.
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Sentence Sense: Commas
This website includes many exercises for learning about comma use.
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Comma Worksheet
This one page PDF file is a printable worksheet to practice comma use.
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Commas
Use this one page PDF file worksheet to practice commas, punctuation, and capital letters.
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Comma Worksheets
Here are links to printable worksheets for comma practice. The worksheets are divided by grade level.
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