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, Comma Flashcards

1
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With the exceptions of years, page numbers, and street addresses, after the first digit of a four-digit number, use___

A

A comma.

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2
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After a person’s name and before Jr., use___

A

No punctuation.

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3
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After a company’s name and before Inc., use___

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No punctuation.

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4
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After a person’s name and before a degree or certification (PhD., Esq., MD, FACS), use___

A

A comma.

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5
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After a person’s name and degree or certification (PhD., Esq., MD, FACS) and before a continuation of the sentence, use___

A

A comma.

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6
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When addressing someone by name or title, to contain the name or title, use___

A

Commas.

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7
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To write a date as month, date, year, after the date and before the year, use___

A

A comma.

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To write a date as day of the week, month, date, year, after the day of the week and before the month, use___

A

A comma.

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9
Q

When writing a date in the middle of a sentence, both before and after the year, use___

A

Commas.

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10
Q

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, ___

A

Rewrite the sentence.

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11
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Between the month and the year when they are the only two elements in the date, use___

A

No comma.

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12
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To separate geographic locations, use___

A

Commas.

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13
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When separating geographic locations, follow the final geographic element when it appears in the middle of a sentence with___

A

A comma.

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14
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To separate a series of words, phrases, or independent clauses, use___

A

Commas.

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15
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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___

A

No comma.

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16
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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

A comma.

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17
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The Oxford comma or serial comma is___

A

The final comma in a list.

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18
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To modify a noun by more than one adjective, as a substitute for the conjunction “and,” to separate the adjectives from each other, use___

A

Commas.

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19
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To modify a noun by three or more adjectives, to treat the adjectives as a conventional list, use___

A

Commas to separate the adjectives and the conjunction “and” between the second-to-last and last adjectives.

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20
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To use multiple sequential adjectives that do not individually modify a noun, to separate the adjectives, use___

A

No commas.

21
Q

When repeating an adjective, to separate the repeating adjectives, use___

A

Commas.

22
Q

To set off nonrestrictive or nonessential words or phrases or information, use___

A

Commas.

23
Q

To set off restrictive or essential words or phrases or information, use___

A

No commas.

24
Q

When using a restrictive pronoun or essential information, use___

A

No commas.

25
Q

When using a nonrestrictive pronoun or nonessential information, use___

A

Commas.

26
Q

When using a nonessential word or phrase in the middle of a sentence, use___

A

Commas.

27
Q

When using a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence, to separate it from the main clause, use___

A

A comma.

28
Q

After the main clause, when using a word or phrase at the end of a sentence, use___

A

A comma.

29
Q

When ending a sentence with an adverb that is essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___

A

No commas.

30
Q

Before a coordinating conjunction that joins two independent clauses, use___

A

A comma.

31
Q

When using independent clauses that are closely connected and short, you may omit the___

A

Comma.

32
Q

Before a coordinating conjunction if the sentence contains only one independent clause, use___

A

No comma.

33
Q

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

A comma.

34
Q

When using a dependent clause before an independent clause, to separate the clauses, use___

A

A comma.

35
Q

When beginning a sentence with two dependent clauses that both apply to the subsequent independent clause, use___

A

A comma only after the second dependent clause.

36
Q

When using an independent clause before a dependent clause, if the dependent clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___

A

No commas.

37
Q

When using an independent clause before a dependent clause, if the dependent clause is not essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___

A

A comma.

38
Q

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___

A

Commas.

39
Q

When using a dependent clause in the middle of a sentence, if the dependent clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, use___

A

No commas.

40
Q

When beginning a sentence with a dependent clause that applies to two independent clauses that follow, after the dependent clause, use ___

A

A comma.

41
Q

When beginning a sentence with a dependent clause that applies to two independent clauses that follow, between the independent clauses, use___

A

No comma.

42
Q

When using a dependent clause that only applies to the second clause between two independent clause, the dependent clause should be set off with ___

A

Commas.

43
Q

To set off certain adverbs at the beginning of a sentence, including however, in fact, therefore, nevertheless, moreover, furthermore, and still, use___

A

A comma.

44
Q

To set off certain adverbs at the beginning of a sentence, including then, so, yet, instead, and too, use___

A

Optional commas.

45
Q

To set off certain adverbs in the middle of a sentence, including however, in fact, therefore, nevertheless, moreover, furthermore, and still, use___

A

Commas.

46
Q

To set off quoted material that is the grammatical object of an active verb of speaking or writing, use___

A

A comma.

47
Q

When writing names that are presented surname first, generally in instances of alphabetization by surname, use___

A

A comma.

48
Q

To indicate that a word or phrase has been omitted, use___

A

A comma.

49
Q

Before, after, or around a noun or pronoun used independently in speaking to some person, place or thing, use___

A

Commas.

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