Improve Your Writing

Table of Contents

1. Why improve your understanding of grammar and punctuation?
2. Punctuation Marks
3. Common Confusions
4. Using quoted material.
5. Other pitfalls and problems
6. Style
7. Exercises
   1. Using the Colon to Improve Style
   2. Using the colon.
   3. Using the semi-colon.
   4. Using the comma 1.
   5. Using the comma 2.
   6. The comma splice.
   7. Separating Clauses
   8. Exercise about conjunctions.
   9. Exercise using the hyphen.
   10. Contracted words
   11. Using the apostrophe 1.
   12. Using the apostrophe 2.
   13. Lists.
   14. Punctuation marks exercise.
   15. Dangling participles exercise.
   16. Who's or Whose?
   17. It's or Its?
   18. There or Their or They're?
   19. To or Too or Two?
   20. Who or Whom?
   21. I or me?
   22. Less or Fewer?
   23. Like or As?
   24. Split Infinitives.
   25. Verb/Subject Agreement.
   26. Using the subjunctive.
   27. Using Numbers.
   28. Punctuation of embedded quotations 1.
   29. Punctuation of embedded quotations. 2
   30. Correcting quotes.
   31. Confusable words 1.
   32. Confusable Words 2.
   33. Confusable words 3.
   34. Consistency of tense.
   35. Common Mistakes.
   36. Run-on Sentences Exercise.
   37. Pleonasm Exercise.
   38. Straying Off The Point Exercise.

Using the comma 1.

In the following exercise you will be asked to add commas to a given sentence. You can copy and paste the given sentence into the answer box to save time typing. You can then add the commas and compare your sentence with the correct version.

1	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. After a hard day at the office I like to relax with a large gin.

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2	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. The recipe needed jam flour sugar fruit eggs ketchup and baking powder.

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3	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. "Look at this" he whispered.

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4	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. Paulina his wife of many years had decided to go and live in Greece.

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5	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. As the sun began to sink over the sea Karen got ready to go out.

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6	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. She was intelligent not especially practical.

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7	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. The thief was wearing impractical high heels so she could not run fast.

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8	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. We go to Blackpool for the cuisine not the weather.

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9	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. "I advise you" said the teacher "not to cross me again today."

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10	Use commas to punctuate this sentence. Steven his head still spinning walked out of the office for the last time.

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Find out more about the uses of the comma.

Try another exercise about the comma.

See a list of other grammar exercises.