Using Commas worksheet

Exercises HH Using Commas Correctly Name: _ Jake Tanner _______________________________ Date: __ 10-7-23 _____ Using the information on pages 368 – 376 of the Harbrace Handbook, complete the following exercises: EXERCISE 1: Insert commas where needed. 1. When people get goose bumps, they may be reacting to a sudden drop in the temperature, or they may be responding to a strong emotion. 2. In general, people notice goose bumps on their forearms, but some people also report having goose bumps on their legs. 3. When a goose is plucked, its flesh protrudes and these protrusions are what goose bumps supposedly resemble, but the technical term for goose bumps is piloerection. 4. The German and Italian languages also have words that refer to goose flesh, but French and Spanish translations refer to hens. 5. Many people report that they get goose bumps when they hear about heroic behavior, yet it is not uncommon for people to have a similar response to beauty in nature or art. 6. Not only humans experience piloerection, but other mammals do as well. Glenn, Cheryl. Harbrace Essentials (p. 369). Cengage Learning. Kindle Edition. EXERCISE 2: Insert necessary commas in the following paragraph. Explain why each comma is needed. Some sentences may not require commas. 1 Although its uses may not be as well-known as those of the comma , (it is a dependent clause) the hashtag serves a variety of functions. 2 However , (introductory) while the comma may indicate pauses or grammatical boundaries (or sometimes both) , (dependent clause) the uses of the hashtag differ. 3 In this century , (introductory) the hashtag found in social media signals a reference to a topic, theme, or idea that is or will become a searchable term. 4 Once this metadata tag has been clicked , (introductory) the viewer accesses posts that feature the tagged word. 5 In previous centuries , (prepositional phrase) writers relied on the hashtag for other purposes. 6 The first use may have been to indicate weight. 7 In fact , (prepositional phrase) according to Keith Houston’s Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation , (this is after what the sentence is according to) the hashtag may have arisen from the abbreviation for pound: lb. from the Latin word libra. 8 Initially , (introductory) scribes added a horizontal stroke through the top halves of each letter in the abbreviation. 9 Other uses of the hashtag include indicating a number and designating that a space should be inserted in a text.