They designed a new flag that was red, ________ and green.
white, [comma]
white [no comma]
They ate breakfast on the run, dashed off to the _______ and spent the morning enjoying art.
gallery [no comma]
gallery, [comma]
She chose three checkerboard patterns: blue and green, red and _____ and orange and green.
blue [no comma]
blue, [comma]
To use commas properly, you have to decide whether it is a simple series, whether the series contains conjunctions of its ____ and whether the series is a complex series of phrases, like this one.
own [no comma]
own, [comma]
Choose between commas and dashes in the following example: The teacher said that he demanded one quality, thoroughness, in students. Actually, he demanded four __________________________ in students.
qualities, thoroughness, timeliness, initiative and attention,
qualities -- thoroughness, timeliness, initiative and attention --
Which is correct according to AP Style--the series below that is punctuated with semicolons, or the one punctuated with commas?
Semicolons: When the teacher's briefcase burst open, out fell a moldy peanut and butter sandwich; three red, white and blue lapel pins; sixteen sets of ungraded assignments; and airline tickets to Las Vegas, San Diego and Tahiti.
Commas: When the teacher's briefcase burst open, out fell a moldy peanut and butter sandwich, three red, white and blue lapel pins, sixteen sets of ungraded assignments, and airline tickets to Las Vegas, San Diego and Tahiti.
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
a long, lonely, railroad
a long, lonely railroad
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
a busy, bustling, crowded, interminable spring festival
a busy, bustling, crowded, interminable, spring festival
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
While I was driving to work yesterday morning I saw you running by.
While I was driving to work yesterday morning, I saw you running by.
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
Coming South in March 1867 with his sister Harriet offered a respite from these struggles.
Coming South in March 1867 with his sister Harriet, offered a respite from these struggles.
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
As a result of the state's growth [no comma] Beecher thought that the Everglades would no longer exist.
As a result of the state's growth, [comma] Beecher thought that the Everglades would no longer exist.
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
Despite their billings as images of reality, [comma] these Negroes of fiction are counterfeits. --Ralph Ellison
Despite their billings as images of reality [no comma] these Negroes of fiction are counterfeits. --Ralph Ellison
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
By forgetting what he knew about his craft and his context, [comma] the woodcarver paradoxically was able to remember the one thing most important to right action: his own inner truth, his own nature. --Parker Palmer.
By forgetting what he knew about his craft and his context [no comma] the woodcarver paradoxically was able to remember the one thing most important to right action: his own inner truth, his own nature. --Parker Palmer.
Choose the example that uses commas correctly:
When we have reminders of death, [comma] we panic. --Pema Chodron
When we have reminders of death [no comma] we panic. --Pema Chodron