Commas for extra detail worksheets
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Extra information rides in the sentence wrapped in commas: My bike, which has a bell, lives on the porch. Lift it out and you still know which bike.
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6th grade Core grade
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Sixth graders punctuate nonrestrictive elements, L.6.2.a, writing sentences whose bonus phrases are properly wrapped: appositives, which-clauses, and asides.
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7th grade
A nonrestrictive element adds information the sentence does not need to identify what it is talking about, so commas fence it off. At seventh grade the element often sits in the middle of the sentence and needs a comma on each side, and the appositives run longer than they did at sixth.
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8th grade
At eighth grade the extra element is longer and often shares the sentence with an essential one. In the runner who crossed the line first, a seventh grader from Tulsa, broke the record, the who clause says which runner and takes no commas, while the appositive is extra and takes two. Eighth graders sort the two and write in only the commas that belong.
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