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Media File: Conquering the Comma PowerPoint Presentation
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This presentation is designed to acquaint you or your students with the rules of comma usage, including:
- placement in compound sentences
- placement after introductory elements
- placement with dependent phrases and clauses
- placement around nonessential elements
- placement in a series
- placement with adjectives
This presentation will also cover methods for avoiding a common comma error—the comma splice. The twenty-six slide presentation included here is designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation of the elements of comma usage. This presentation is ideal for the beginning of a composition course, the assignment of a writing project, or as a refresher presentation for grammar usage.