Comma practice
Insert commas where needed in each of the following sentences. If the sentence is correct as-is, place a “C” next to the sentence.
1. Will you spend your vacation in the mountains on the lake or at the seashore?
2. On the day before our SATs our teacher suggested that we go home that we eat a good dinner that we take a relaxing bath and that we get to bed early.
3. Bring food comfortable shoes and a sleeping bag for the overnight camping trip.
4. Have you ever experienced such a miserably cold wet summer?
5. By the end of the second day of school all students seemed to have found their correct classrooms teachers and lockers.
6. The kids on the jungle gym go over it and under it and around it.
7. Mr. Byrne is a popular teacher for he is known to be fair and he has a sense of humor.
8. My sister did her undergraduate work at Cornell and her graduate work at Yale she is now a professor at Brown.
9. American drama which began its development later than the American novel underwent a renaissance in the 1920s.
10. Anyone wishing to join the Biology Club on its field trip should notify his home office by tomorrow morning.
11. Struck by lightning the ancient oak tree crashed to the ground.
12. Reading late into the night is a favorite pastime of mine I especially like Steven King.
13. While the hardcover edition of the book was still on the bestseller list a paperback edition was published.
14. Claude McKay’s Banjo the book that I have often told you about was first published in 1929 the year the Great Depression began.
15. I know Raymond that you will do well.
16. In July 1976 we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the United States.
17. Feeney’s Nursery is located on Route 303 near Tappan New York.
18. Hannah’s new address is 101 Oak Tree Road Tappan New York 10958.
19. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4 1968.
20. Bring tape crayons paper glue and scissors to the craft lesson.
21. In front of the long column of troops on the field the general introduced his successor.
22. Solving crossword puzzles is one of my grandmother’s favorite pastimes.
23. A child frightened by the thunder often needs reassurance.
24. My dog Rudy Patrick Lawler frightened by the thunder climbed onto my lap.
25. Pam and her cousin Mia are very close although Mia lives in Alba Italy.