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ELA Drills, Advanced: Punctuation and Capitalization 3. Which of the following is not punctuated correctly?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by punctuation great for
- 00:07
separating words and ideas not so great for separating angry boxers though so if [Men boxing in a ring]
- 00:12
you hire a comma as a ref someone's probably going to get hurt....Which of
- 00:16
following is not punctuated correctly and here are your potential answers...
- 00:21
well here's a quick hint free of charge like Girl Scout cookies when it comes to [Girl eating cookies]
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- 00:24
commas, it's possible to have too much of a good thing if we have a noun that's
- 00:28
being described by a bunch of adjectives those adjectives are usually separated
- 00:31
by commas but we don't need a comma between the last adjective and a noun an
- 00:36
excessive use of commas won't give you a bellyache but it will give you an [Girl eating cookies and has belly ache]
- 00:39
ungrammatical sentence and that's way worse...
- 00:42
Let's check our options for an overabundance of commas starting with D
- 00:45
this sentence has one comma stuck right there between the adjectives [Person gives thumbs up for answer D]
- 00:49
and frankly that's all it needs...
- 00:55
what about C another sentence with just one comma between
- 00:59
adjectives and this sentence also happens to be error free however we're a bit
- 01:03
suspicious about how entertaining the presentation was we think Michael [Michael giving presentation with bar graph]
- 01:07
might just be really into bar graphs...... how about B this sentence doesn't
- 01:11
have any commas but it does have two adjectives so have we found our answer
- 01:14
you wish.... if Kyle's dad got a new car and we're describing it as new and red and [Kyle's dad with Ferrari car]
- 01:19
it would make sense to have a comma in there since both adjectives are
- 01:22
describing the car because it's certainly not Kyle's dad who's new and
- 01:26
red but if Kyle's dad has lots of red cars and this is just the newest one, a
- 01:31
comma free sentence might be the way to go it might not need commas but Kyle
- 01:35
probably needs his dad's permission to go riding in his car especially if he [Kyle asks Dad to ride his car]
- 01:38
wants to pick up one of those ice cream cones that are murder on the
- 01:42
upholstery all right what about A? This sentence has two commas the first one's
- 01:45
doing a great job separating adjectives that both describes a sweater that
- 01:49
second comma though is up to no good as we know there's no need to separate the
- 01:53
adjective blue from the noun sweater so at long last we have our answer A...maybe
- 01:57
next time John brings out his old blue sweater he'll check for commas first [John holding blue sweater and checks for commas]
- 02:00
those things like to live in pockets...
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