PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Commas for Introductory Elements
Introductory elements are clauses, phrases, and words that appear before the main part of a sentence. Without commas, the reader may be confused. Use commas to indicate properly the who and the what. [0:40]
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Using Commas
Do you know how to use commas properly? Use this website to learn more about these pesky punctuation marks.
PBS
Pbs: How to Use Commas for Yes, No, Tag Questions, and Direct Address
Models how to use commas with offset elements such as yes, no, or a tag question. Includes downloadable reference sheet, a short student exercise, and an answer key for the teacher.
Savvas Learning
Pearson Longman: Sentence Resources for Writers: Commas
A grammar activity/assessment for the high school student on using commas correctly. With ten multiple choice questions that can be submitted to be scored and an essay question.
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BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Using Commas [Pdf]
Use this BBC Skillswise factsheet to learn more about commas, including how to use them in a series and how to separate less important parts of a sentence.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Commas and Quotations
Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly! [0:46]
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Glencoe Online: Writer's Choice: Using Commas
Students choose the sentence that uses commas correctly in this ten-question, interactive exercise. When finished, correct answers are displayed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas
This comma tutorial include 5 slideshows: 1. how and when to use or not use commas, 2. proper use of commas in coordinating clauses, 3. proper use of commas in lists, 4. proper use of commas in introductory phrases, and 5. proper use of...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Introductory Phrases
This online quiz from the Capital Community College is tightly focused on commas and introductory phrases. Ten questions ask the reader to insert commas where necessary, then check the sentence against the website's version. Vocabulary...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Commas With Nonessential Elements Exercise 3
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with placing commas in sentences that have nonessential elements in them.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Commas After Introductions Exercise 2
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with adding commas to introductory phrases in sentences.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas: Exercise #2
Put in commas wherever they are needed in the ten sentences provided. Check your answers when you are done.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Commas With Nonessential Elements Exercise 2
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying essential and nonessential phrases and clauses. Students will complete the sentences and provide commas where necessary.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas After Introductions, Exercise 1
Use this exercise to determine your understanding of comma usage with introductory elements in sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Rules for Comma Usage
Rules and examples of how to use commas correctly in sentences.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Using Commas
This tutorial shows how to punctuate nonrestrictive and restrictive modifiers. Definitions and sample pairs of sentences are included.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Using Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]
This learning exercise requires that you identify correctly punctuated sentences with introductory elements, then correct those which are incorrect.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Commas and Quotations | No Nonsense Grammar
Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly!
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Coordinating Conjunctions
An exercise with ten compound sentences. Students are asked to type the commas where they belongs in compound sentences with a coordinating conjunctions. Then students can check their answers to see how they did.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Words
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory elements. Numerous examples of commas after introductory phrases, introductory clauses, and introductory transitions are provided in this resource.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Rules for Comma Usage
Here's a site from the Capital Community College to show the correct and incorrect way to use or not use commas.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Phrases
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory phrases in sentences.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas: Exercise #3
Put in commas wherever they are needed in the sentences provided. Answers are included at the end of the exercise.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas: Exercise #5
Put in commas wherever they are needed in the seventeen sentences. Answers are included at the end of the exercise.