{"id":903,"date":"2013-02-19T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:14:20","slug":"commas-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/commas\/commas-part-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Commas with Question Marks and Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rule 1 &#8211; <\/strong>Use a comma to separate a statement from a question.<br \/>\n<strong>Example: <\/strong><em>I can go, can&#8217;t I?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 2 &#8211; <\/strong>Use a comma to separate contrasting parts of a sentence.<br \/>\n<strong>Example: <\/strong><em>That is my money, not yours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nSelect the correct sentence.<\/p>\n<p>1A. You\u2019re Marvin from my old Denver neighborhood, aren\u2019t you?<br \/>\n1B. You\u2019re Marvin from my old Denver neighborhood aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>2A. I believe that\u2019s my jacket, isn\u2019t it?<br \/>\n2B. I believe that\u2019s my jacket isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>3A. That is a mountain lion not a house cat.<br \/>\n3B. That is a mountain lion, not a house cat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><br \/>\n1A. You\u2019re Marvin from my old Denver neighborhood, aren\u2019t you?<br \/>\n2A. I believe that\u2019s my jacket, isn\u2019t it?<br \/>\n3B. That is a mountain lion, not a house cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule 1 &#8211; Use a comma to separate a statement from a question. Example: I can go, can&#8217;t I? Rule 2 &#8211; Use a comma to separate contrasting parts of a sentence. Example: That is my money, not yours. Pop Quiz Select the correct sentence. 1A. You\u2019re Marvin from my old Denver neighborhood, aren\u2019t you? [&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-903","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\/903"}],"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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5661,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}