{"id":898,"date":"2013-02-12T17:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:33:40","slug":"commas-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/commas\/commas-part-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Comma Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rule: Use a comma to separate two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction&#8211;<em>and, or, but, for, nor<\/em>.<br \/>\nExample: He thought quickly, but he still did not answer correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s look at a slightly different situation.<br \/>\n<strong>Rule 1 &#8211;<\/strong> If the subject does not appear in front of the second verb, do not use a comma.<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong> <em>He thought quickly but still did not answer correctly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 2 &#8211;<\/strong> Use commas to introduce or interrupt direct quotations shorter than three lines.<br \/>\n<strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>He actually said, &#8220;I do not care.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Why,&#8221; I asked, &#8220;do you always forget to do it?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nChoose the correct sentence.<br \/>\n1A. She went to the mall and she found the perfect pair of shoes to wear at the wedding.<br \/>\n1B. She went to the mall, and she found the perfect pair of shoes to wear at the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>2A. She went to the mall and found the perfect pair of shoes to wear at the wedding.<br \/>\n2B. She went to the mall, and found the perfect pair of shoes to wear at the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>3A. \u201cBaseball\u201d Yogi Berra said \u201cis ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical.\u201d<br \/>\n3B. \u201cBaseball\u201d Yogi Berra said, \u201cis ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical.\u201d<br \/>\n3C. \u201cBaseball,\u201d Yogi Berra said, \u201cis ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><br \/>\n1B. She went to the mall, and she found the perfect pair of shoes to wear at the wedding.<br \/>\n2A. She went to the mall and found the perfect pair of shoes to wear at the wedding.<br \/>\n3C. \u201cBaseball,\u201d Yogi Berra said, \u201cis ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule: Use a comma to separate two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction&#8211;and, or, but, for, nor. Example: He thought quickly, but he still did not answer correctly. Now, let\u2019s look at a slightly different situation. Rule 1 &#8211; If the subject does not appear in front of the second verb, do not use [&hellip;]<\/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-898","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\/898"}],"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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}