, Comma Flashcards
With the exceptions of years, page numbers, and street addresses, after the first digit of a four-digit number, use___
A comma.
After a person’s name and before Jr., use___
No punctuation.
After a company’s name and before Inc., use___
No punctuation.
After a person’s name and before a degree or certification (PhD., Esq., MD, FACS), use___
A comma.
After a person’s name and degree or certification (PhD., Esq., MD, FACS) and before a continuation of the sentence, use___
A comma.
When addressing someone by name or title, to contain the name or title, use___
Commas.
To write a date as month, date, year, after the date and before the year, use___
A comma.
To write a date as day of the week, month, date, year, after the day of the week and before the month, use___
A comma.
When writing a date in the middle of a sentence, both before and after the year, use___
Commas.
As there is confusion over whether there should be a comma following the year when a date is used as an adjective, to avoid using a date as an adjective, ___
Rewrite the sentence.
Between the month and the year when they are the only two elements in the date, use___
No comma.
To separate geographic locations, use___
Commas.
When separating geographic locations, follow the final geographic element when it appears in the middle of a sentence with___
A comma.
To separate a series of words, phrases, or independent clauses, use___
Commas.
If a sentence continues after a series of words, phrases, or independent clauses with no other need for a comma, after the last item in the list, use___
No comma.
If a sentence continues after a series of words, phrases, or independent clauses with another need for a comma, after the last item in the list, use___
A comma.
The Oxford comma or serial comma is___
The final comma in a list.
To modify a noun by more than one adjective, as a substitute for the conjunction “and,” to separate the adjectives from each other, use___
Commas.
To modify a noun by three or more adjectives, to treat the adjectives as a conventional list, use___
Commas to separate the adjectives and the conjunction “and” between the second-to-last and last adjectives.
To use multiple sequential adjectives that do not individually modify a noun, to separate the adjectives, use___
No commas.
When repeating an adjective, to separate the repeating adjectives, use___
Commas.
To set off nonrestrictive or nonessential words or phrases or information, use___
Commas.
To set off restrictive or essential words or phrases or information, use___
No commas.
When using a restrictive pronoun or essential information, use___
No commas.
When using a nonrestrictive pronoun or nonessential information, use___
Commas.
When using a nonessential word or phrase in the middle of a sentence, use___
Commas.
When using a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence, to separate it from the main clause, use___
A comma.
After the main clause, when using a word or phrase at the end of a sentence, use___
A comma.
When ending a sentence with an adverb that is essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___
No commas.
Before a coordinating conjunction that joins two independent clauses, use___
A comma.
When using independent clauses that are closely connected and short, you may omit the___
Comma.
Before a coordinating conjunction if the sentence contains only one independent clause, use___
No comma.
Before a coordinating conjunction if the sentence contains only one independent clause and if omitting the comma leads to confusion or lack of clarity, use___
A comma.
When using a dependent clause before an independent clause, to separate the clauses, use___
A comma.
When beginning a sentence with two dependent clauses that both apply to the subsequent independent clause, use___
A comma only after the second dependent clause.
When using an independent clause before a dependent clause, if the dependent clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___
No commas.
When using an independent clause before a dependent clause, if the dependent clause is not essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___
A comma.
When using a dependent clause in the middle of a sentence, if the dependent clause is not essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___
Commas.
When using a dependent clause in the middle of a sentence, if the dependent clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___
No commas.
When beginning a sentence with a dependent clause that applies to two independent clauses that follow, after the dependent clause, use ___
A comma.
When beginning a sentence with a dependent clause that applies to two independent clauses that follow, between the independent clauses, use___
No comma.
When using a dependent clause that only applies to the second clause between two independent clause, the dependent clause should be set off with ___
Commas.
To set off certain adverbs at the beginning of a sentence, including however, in fact, therefore, nevertheless, moreover, furthermore, and still, use___
A comma.
To set off certain adverbs at the beginning of a sentence, including then, so, yet, instead, and too, use___
Optional commas.
To set off certain adverbs in the middle of a sentence, including however, in fact, therefore, nevertheless, moreover, furthermore, and still, use___
Commas.
To set off quoted material that is the grammatical object of an active verb of speaking or writing, use___
A comma.
When writing names that are presented surname first, generally in instances of alphabetization by surname, use___
A comma.
To indicate that a word or phrase has been omitted, use___
A comma.
Before, after, or around a noun or pronoun used independently in speaking to some person, place or thing, use___
Commas.
