Today, we’ll examine two more uses for the comma.<\/p>\n
Rule 1: <\/strong>If something or someone is sufficiently identified, the description following it is considered nonessential and should be surrounded by commas.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/strong> The boy who has a limp was in an automobile accident. Joanna Ferguson, a senior English major, is the best athlete in the school. The crew members who work in our building are very friendly. Rule 2: <\/strong>Use the comma to separate two sentences if it will help avoid confusion.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/strong> He will coach his younger son, and his older son will help tutor the children on the team.<\/p>\n Pop Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n Choose the sentence with the correct punctuation. <\/em><\/p>\n 1A. Julie Andrews one of the most famous film stars in history starred in The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1B. Julie Andrews, one of the most famous film stars in history, starred in The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2A. I saw the girl with the red hair at the grocery store last night.<\/p>\n 2B. I saw the girl, with the red hair, at the grocery store last night.<\/p>\n 3A. Susan had to say the words slowly, and quickly he looked up to see she was crying.<\/p>\n 3B. Susan had to say the words slowly and quickly he looked up to see she was crying.<\/p>\n Answers to Pop Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n Correct answers indicated by an asterisk (*).<\/em><\/p>\n 1A. Julie Andrews one of the most famous film stars in history starred in The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1B.* Julie Andrews, one of the most famous film stars in history, starred in The Sound of Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2A.* I saw the girl with the red hair at the grocery store last night.<\/p>\n 2B. I saw the girl, with the red hair, at the grocery store last night.<\/p>\n 3A.* Susan had to say the words slowly, and quickly he looked up to see she was crying.<\/p>\n 3B. Susan had to say the words slowly and quickly he looked up to see she was crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, we’ll examine two more uses for the comma. Rule 1: If something or someone is sufficiently identified, the description following it is considered nonessential and should be surrounded by commas. Examples: Freddy, who has a limp, was in an automobile accident. (Freddy is named, so the description of him that immediately follows is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commas"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFreddy, who has a limp, was in an automobile accident.
\n(Freddy is named, so the description of him that immediately follows is not essential.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n(We do not know which boy is being referred to without having that further description; therefore, it is essential and no commas are used.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n(Joanna is named, so the description that immediately follows is not essential.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n(We don’t know which crew members are being referred to without the description that follows, so no commas are used.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI chose the colors red and green, and blue was his first choice.<\/p>\n