Using Commas - Worksheet

The worksheet provides exercises aimed at teaching students how to use commas correctly to improve sentence clarity and readability. The first set of exercises instructs students to insert commas into a series of items or choices to create a more readable list format. For example, in the sentence "Sandra bought a loaf of bread and a sausage roll and a cheese and onion pie and an iced finger," students are expected to place commas after each item except for the last, which is connected by the conjunction 'and'. Similarly, the other sentences in this section require students to identify where commas are needed to separate the items or activities listed.

The second part of the worksheet focuses on using commas to separate dialogue within sentences. Students are asked to insert commas to clearly indicate where the spoken words begin and end, as well as to separate the dialogue from the rest of the sentence. This helps to distinguish the speaker's words from the narrative text and clarifies who is speaking. For instance, in the sentence "She said 'It takes twenty minutes on the bus,'" a comma is needed after 'said' and before the opening quotation mark to properly punctuate the dialogue. Through these exercises, students learn the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and maintaining the flow of a text.