Always use commas

Hello bloggers! This post is about what we did for writing. We worked on using our commas, because commas play an important role in our writing. For example, here is a piece of writing that doesn't have commas, and one that does have commas. Can you see how using commas changes the meaning of a sentence?

The pupil said the teacher should be put in detention for not doing his homework.

And here is the one with commas:

The pupil, said the teacher, should be put in detention for not doing his homework. There will be some more examples at the bottom after the presentation of my work.

Name: Sam

Commas to Clarify Meaning

Alter the following so they include commas in the correct places:

1. When the lighting was incredibly bright, people were scared.
2. “Careful children!”, shouted the teacher.
3. As the campers sat round the fire eating, the bear hid in the bushes.
4. “Let’s leave Samira!”, he shouted through the darkness.

Add in the commas to change the meaning of these sentence then explain how the meaning has changed:

Original Sentence	Altered Sentence	How has the meaning changed?
The pupil said the teacher was to be put in detention for not doing his homework.	The pupil, said the teacher, was to be put in detention for not doing his homework.	I put a comma after the word “said”.
Help a burglar.	“Help!”, a burglar.	I changed it so that it didn’t tell you to say help a burglar.

Use commas to give the two sentences different meanings:

As the sun shone bright red, people moved into the shade.

As the sun shone bright red people moved into the shade.

The room was full of crying babies, and mothers.

The room was full of crying babies and mothers.

The boy said, the teacher was noisy.

The boy said the teacher was noisy.

Challenge:

Write an appropriate sentence to describe the pictures, with commas to clarify meaning where needed.

“Shh”, said the angry teacher.	“Do your work”, said the teacher.

More examples of how commas are important and why you should use more than one:

• I love cooking my pets friends and family

          I love cooking, my pets, friends, and family.

• Lets eat Grandpa!

          Lets eat, Grandpa!

• While dad was eating the Dog, the cat and the horse were trying to steal his meal. 

          While dad was eating, the dog, the cat and the horse were trying to steal his meal.

                                                            Thanks for reading!

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Here is a Link to the detective/forensics site.

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The Positives and Negatives of being the same on Biteable.

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