Transcript Do Not Put Commas Before Compound Predicates! D:

Do Not Put Commas Before
Compound Predicates! D:<
(Tips and Such.)
BY LEXUS R AND DYLAN W!
(PERIOD 2)
Independent Clause:
 A clause with a subject and a verb, that can stand
alone as its own sentence.
 Ex. "{She loves to run and does it often.}"
 Ex. 2. "{He does not like to shop} but has to."
 The pink words are subjects, and the green words
are verbs.
 The words in {} make an independent clause, and
they can stand alone as their own sentence.
Compound Predicates:
 Two or more verb phrases (predicates)
joined together by a FANBOY (For, And,
Nor, But, Or, Yet.)
 Ex.
"{She loves to run and does it often.}"
 Ex. 2. "{He does not like to shop but has to.}"
 The verbs both share the same subject, and they
are in the same independent clause.
 The words in {} make an independent clause.
 The predicates are in purple.
When to not put a comma:
 Before the second predicate in a sentence with a
compound predicate in an independent clause.
 Ex. Right: “She loves to run and does it often.”
Wrong: “She loves to run, and does it often.”
 Ex. 2. Right: “He does not like to shop but has
to.” Wrong: “He does not like to shop, but has
to.”
Compound Sentence:
 A sentence with two or more independent clauses.
 Ex.
"{She loves to run}, and {she does it often.}"
 Ex. 2. "{He does not like to shop}, but {he has
to.}"
 Both sentences have two independent clauses,
connected by a subordinating conjunction.
 Independent clauses are in {}.
When to put a comma:
 Before the second predicate in a compound
sentence with two subjects
 Ex. Right: “She loves to run, and she does it
often.” Wrong: “She loves to run and she does it
often.”
 Ex. 2. Right: “He does not like to shop, but he
has to.” Wrong: “He does not like to shop but he
has to.”
Subordinating (Dependent) Clause:
 A clause with a subject, verb, and subordinating
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conjunction, that cannot stand alone as its own
sentence.
 Ex. [Before the game started], {I ran home}.
 Ex. 2. {We went to the store} [after we left the
concert].
The words in [] make a subordinating clause.
The words in {} make an independent clause.
The words in pink are subjects, the words in green are
verbs, and the subordinating conjunctions are blue.
If the sentence starts with a dependent clause, it needs
a comma. If the dependent clause is at the end of the
sentence then it doesn’t need a comma.
Bibliography!
 Driscoll, Dana, and Allen Brizee. "Extended Rules For Using Commas."
OWL At Purdue . Purdue University, 20 July 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/>.
 "Language Handbook." Elements Of Literature . Third Course ed.
Austin: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2005. 1062-063. Print.
 Peck, Frances. "The Comma." The Writing Centre . University of
Ottawa. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/comma.html.
 Peck, Frances. "The Comma." The Writing Centre . University of
Ottawa. Web. 28 Oct. 2010.
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/comma.html.