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Welcome to class! Today is February 1, 2011.

Welcome to class! Today is February 1, 2011. Please take out your homework from last night and from Thursday night. Please update your AGENDA. Please take out your WRITER’S TOOLBOX. Please have the first person in each row get you tonight’s homework from the white box.

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Welcome to class! Today is February 1, 2011.

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  1. Welcome to class!Today is February 1, 2011. • Please take out your homework from last night and from Thursday night. • Please update your AGENDA. • Please take out your WRITER’S TOOLBOX. • Please have the first person in each row get you tonight’s homework from the white box.\ • On a piece of paper, write down everything you know about commas.

  2. COMMAS:the hardest working punctuation. USE : Example: Miss Marks dates cowboys, rock stars, and hippies. Miss Marks ran to the bus like a track star, but she missed it anyway. Realizing his error, Mr. D apologized to the student for accusing him. Still, I decided to eat it anyway. • In a series of three or more. • Before the conjunction in a compound sentence. • Before an introductory word or clause.

  3. Use commas to set off parenthetical expressions or interrupters (side marks) • APPOSITIVES! * gives more information about the noun. NON-restrictive appositives are NOT essential to the sentence and are set off by commas. RESTRICTIVE appositives are essential to the sentence and they are not set off by commas • Cynthia is, believe it or not, planning to visit Antarctica. • NON-restrictive: Jane’s husband, Billy Bob, is a doctor. • Restrictive: Jane’s friend MuMu is from Hawaii.

  4. Place commas after greetings and closing in informal letters. • Dear Grandma, • Yours truly,

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