Transcript How the Grinch Stole the Commas

How the Grinch Stole the
Commas!
By: Kelly Gentzel
Cindy Lou Who loves
her commas and her
comma tree.
She was very upset
when she went
downstairs to find the
Grinch stealing her
commas.
The Grinch loves to
steal commas from
all the little
children. We need
your help to get all
the commas back
and put them in the
correct place before
Christmas Day.
The Grinch pats
Cindy Lou on the
head and says, “Go
back to bed little
girl.”
Rules for Dialogue:
-Commas used to separate dialogue from the rest of
the sentence
-keep the punctuation inside the quotation marks
The Grinch puts the comma
train in his big bag of stolen
commas, and leaves Cindy Lou
Who’s house and hops on his
sleigh with his dog Max.
Rule for Side-By-Side
Sentences:
Commas to set off
side-by-side sentences
when a coordinating
conjunction (FANBOYS)
is also used (the
compound sentence
comma)
Watch out for comma
splices!
A comma splice
happens when you
hook two or more
independent clauses
(group of words with a
subject and verb)
together with
commas but no
coordinating
conjunction.
Cindy Lou Who,
climbing up the snowy
mountain, gets the
commas back so the
children can have a
wonderful Christmas.
Rule for Extra Information:
Commas to set off extra information
interrupters (the nonrestrictive elements
comma pair, the appositive pair, the
participle comma pair)
While she is on the
mountain, she makes
the Grinch realize
what he has done and
changes his feelings
towards commas.
Rule for Introductory Elements:
Commas to set off introductions (the introductory
elements commas go before the subject of the main
clause; the direct address)
The Grinch’s heart grows three sizes,
so he puts the stolen commas in his
bag, tumbles down the mountain
and slides down the chimney to
return the commas.
,
Rule for commas in a
list:
Commas to separate
three or more items in
a list (the series
comma)
Remember!
Compound verbs and
nouns do NOT need
commas. Compound
verbs and nouns only
contain TWO
different parts. They
only need commas if
there are THREE OR
MORE different
parts.
All is well in WhoVille once again, as
the commas were put
back where they
belong on the
Christmas tree.
Years later, the
Grinch
continues to
reestablish his
love for commas;
therefore, he
attends
Christmas dinner
with Cindy Lou
Who and Max
every Christmas
Eve.
Works Cited Page
 Ideas for storyline were taken from How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr.
Seuss
-Rules for commas cited by Dr. Smith
-Images from Google Images
• http://magazine.uc.edu/content/dam/magazine/images/famous/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-movie-poster1966-1020427389.jpg
• http://www.christmas-clipart.com/free_christmas_clip_art_images/christmas_tree_coloring_page_0515-10111821-0735_SMU.jpg
• http://www.kknutson.com/christmas-tree-coloring-pages-online/
• https://www.google.com/search?q=grinch&biw=1188&bih=533&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi
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• http://www.novel-writing-help.com/punctuating-dialogue.html
The End!