The Learning Commons

Practice Commas, Dashes & Parentheses

 

Add commas where needed in the following sentences:

  1. The boys love alternative music and their favorite performer is Courtney Love.
  2. You can wait thirty minutes to ride the bus or you can try to catch a ride with your neighbor.
  3. Generally speaking apples which are hard and green turn out to be sour.
  4. You get your choice of three salad dressings: French blue cheese and oil and vinegar.
  5. Too much coffee too much salt and too much work may all lead to high blood pressure.
  6. Movies that are rated R are usually not suitable for children.
  7. Mr. Johnson my teacher's husband is looking forward to his retirement.
  8. Make love not war.
  9. We wonder on the other hand why no one questioned the policy in the first place.
  10. The smallest painting in the room showing a beautiful young woman in a rose velvet dress is thought to be the work of Da Vinci or one of his apprentices

Grammarland

 

Clauses

Apostrophes & Possessives

Sentence Fragments

Dangling Modifiers

Coordination & Subordination

Commas, Dashes, & Parentheses

Parallelism

Subject/Verb Agreement

Semicolons

Comma Splices and Fused Sentences