COMMAS LEARNING TARGET 1 AND 2
FORMATIVE EXERCISE 3
Place the commas (from envelope) after each word in which a comma is needed. Some sentences will not
need commas. If a sentence is correct without commas, place a C (from envelope) on top of the number.
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My new alarm clock didn’t go off my breakfast was
cold and the school bus had a flat tire.
The river overflowed again and filled our basement
and our neighbors’ basements.
Alligators sharks and snakes are dangerous annoying
nuisances in Florida.
I took a flashlight sleeping bag extra tennis shoes
pocket knife and rain parka on our camping trip.
James Garfield Harry Truman and Gerald Ford were
left-handed U.S. Presidents.
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At the gymnastics meet Les performed on the parallel
bars the rings and the high bar.
7.
A little blond child in faded blue jeans emerged from
the shrubbery to stare at the mail carrier.
8. Catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Anne
of Cleves Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr were
wives of Henry VIII.
9. Sylvia admires the great women novelists: Jane
Austen the Brontё sisters Virginia Woolf Willa Cather
Elizabeth Bowen George Eliot and many others.
10. With a quick powerful leap to the ground, the stuntman
bounded over the burning balcony.
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