➰ Commas (speaking) ➰

Benefits➕:
➿ Improve your understanding of how to use commas correctly ;
✍️ Write more clearly and effectively .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS:
Round 1. Determine the place where comma is missing.
Madam Secretary [ , ] ✔️ I politely disagree...
Round 2. Remove extra comma.
Westminster Abbey [ , ] ✖️ is located in London, England.

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➰ Commas (speaking) ➰

Benefits➕:
➿ Improve your understanding of how to use commas correctly ;
✍️ Write more clearly and effectively .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS:
Round 1. Determine the place where comma is missing.
Madam Secretary [ , ] ✔️ I politely disagree...
Round 2. Remove extra comma.
Westminster Abbey [ , ] ✖️ is located in London, England.

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📍 Round 1️⃣. INSERT THE MISSING COMMAS

❗️ Insert 1️⃣ missing comma :

1️⃣ Before the telegraph was invented Europeans used semaphore lines which were a network of towers trat transmitted visual signals across distances.

✅ Answer: Before the telegraph was invented,🔻 Europeans used semaphore lines, which were a network of towers that transmitted visual signals across distances.

ℹ️ TIP: Dependent clauses are followed by commas when they come directly before complete sentences.

❗️ Insert 2️⃣ missing commas :

2️⃣ A large storage tank burst and sent a great flood of molasses through the North End neighbourhood of Boston Massachussets on 15 January 1919.

✅ Answer: A large storage tank burst and sent a great flood of molasses through the North End neighbourhood of Boston,🔻 Massachussets,🔻 on 15 January 1919.

ℹ️ TIP for both cases: The state or country name is separated by comma from the city and from the rest of the sentence.

❗️ Insert 2️⃣ missing commas :

3️⃣ Vivienne admire the entry in her gran's diary dated Tuesday 5 October. 'We welcomed a little boy to the family' it read in neat penmanship.

✅ Answer: Vivienne admire the entry in her gran's diary dated Tuesday,🔻 5 October. 'We welcomed a little boy to the family',🔻 it read in neat penmanship.

ℹ️ TIP: 1st case — The day of the week is separated from rest of the date with a comma.
2nd case — Quotations are followed by a comma that comes before the names of the people speaking. The quotation's original punctuation determines the comma's location. More info: The gomma goes inside the inverted when it would naturally be there without the inverted comma or if it appears in the original; oherwise, it's placed outside.

❗️ Insert 2️⃣ missing commas :

4️⃣ Ms. Hamma said 'Irony relies on a clash between appearance and reality.' She then listed the types of irony: verbal dramatic, and situational.

✅ Answer: Ms. Hamma said,🔻 'Irony relies on a clash between appearance and reality.' She then listed the types of irony: verbal,🔻 dramatic, and situational.

ℹ️ TIP: 1st case — A quotation introduction at the beginning of a sentence is followed by a comma. The comma appears before the quotation marks. 2nd case — Items in a series are separated by commas when the series has three or more items. It is recommended to put a comma before the last item for clarity.

❗️ Insert 3️⃣ missing commas :

5️⃣ U.S. Route 66 was first established in the year 1926 and extends from Chicago Illinois all the way to Santa Monica California.

✅ Answer: U.S. Route 66 was first established in the year 1926 and extends from Chicago,🔻 Illinois,🔻 all the way to Santa Monica,🔻 California.

ℹ️ TIP for all cases: The state or country name is separated by comma from the city and from the rest of the sentence.

📍 Round 2️⃣. REMOVE THE EXTRA COMMAS.

❗️ Remove 1️⃣ extra comma :

6️⃣ Jule Charney was born in San Francisco,🔺 California,🔺 on 1 January 1917. He helped pioneer the use of computers,🔺 to predict the weather in the 1940s.

✅ Answer: Jule Charney was born in San Francisco,✔️ California,✔️ on 1 January 1917. He helped pioneer the use of computers,✖️ to predict the weather in the 1940s.

❗️ Remove 2️⃣ extra commas :

7️⃣ Some 11 kilometres,🔺 below the Pacific Ocean,🔺 there's an area known Challenger Deep. A submersible made the treacherous,🔺 painstaking,🔺 dive in 1960.

✅ Answer: Some 11 kilometres✖️ below the Pacific Ocean✔️ there's an area known Challenger Deep. A submersible made the treacherous✔️ painstaking✖️ dive in 1960.

❗️ Remove 3️⃣ extra comma :

8️⃣ My first personal,🔺 training,🔺 session is Friday,🔺 16 September',🔺 he said. He then thought,🔺 'Maybe,🔺 I'll also meet with a dietician to get a meal plan.'

✅ Answer: My first personal✖️ training✖️ session is Friday,✔️ 16 September',✔️ he said. He then thought,✔️ 'Maybe✖️ I'll also meet with a dietician to get a meal plan.'

❗️ Remove 3️⃣ extra commas :

9️⃣ Named after the Roman god of the sea,🔺 Neptune is the third,🔺 largest planet,🔺 in the solar system,🔺 and it takes 164 years to,🔺 orbit the Sun.

✅ Answer: Named after the Roman god of the sea,✔️ Neptune is the third✖️ largest planet✖️ in the solar system,✔️ and it takes 164 years to✖️ orbit the Sun.

❗️ Remove 2️⃣ extra commas :

🔟 The first city in the United Kingdom to use postcodes,🔺 was Norwich,🔺 England',🔺 said Jamie. 'There's now more than 1.5 million postcodes,🔺 in the UK.'

✅ Answer: The first city in the United Kingdom to use postcodes✖️ was Norwich,✔️ England',✔️ said Jamie. 'There's now more than 1.5 million postcodes✖️ in the UK.'

📓 Detail (writing) 📓

Benefits➕:
🔍 Quickly spot mistakes and typos in your writing ;
✔️ Identify problems that spell-check won't catch .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Read the passage and select all the errors. Each round focuses on a different type of error:

ROUND 1. CAPITALIZATION, QUESTION MARKS & PERIODS ;
ROUND 2. MISSPELLINGS & TYPOS ;
ROUND 3. EXTRA & MISSING WORDS .

‼️ To make most of this game, try giving yourself 45 seconds to identify mistakes for each round. 15 secs for bonus round.
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ROUND 1 OF 3. CAPITALIZATION, QUESTION MARKS & PERIODS

📝 Info: Focus on a single sentence at a time. Make sure that it begins with a capitalized word and ends with proper punctuation.

Example: In addition to his pioneering work on photosynthesis, Ingenhousz helped promote ✖️Inoculation (inoculation ✔️) against smallpox ✖️(smallpox. ✔️)

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French Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys performed the first blood Transfusion in 1667 when he transferred blood from a lamb to a 15-year-old patient. Crude tools like goose quills were used instead of needles. Despite that, the patient survived.

Later transfusions were unsuccessful, and the Practice was banned by the French Government. Further development of the technique would have to wait until the 19th century.


❗️ Identify the mistakes and write them in the comment section. 2 more rounds coming up. We will have the answer key later today.

ROUND 2 OF 3. MISSPELLINGS & TYPOS

📝 Info: Read the passage looking for spelling errors and words that may be spelled correctly but used incorrectly (to vs. too). Then, look for misspellings by reading the passage backwards so that you can see each word individually rather than as a group.

Example: In addition to his pionering✖️(pioneering✔️) work on photosynthesis, Ingenhousz helped promote inoculation against smallpox.

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0 of 4 found

French doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys performed the first blood transfusion in 1667 when he transferred blood from a lam to a 15-year-old patient. Crude tools like goose quills ware used instead of needles. Dispite that, the patient survived.

Later transfusions were unsuccessful, and the practice was banned by the French government. Further development of the technique wood have to wait until the 19th century.

ROUND 3 OF 3. EXTRA & MISSING WORDS

📝 Info: Read the passage aloud to identify extra or missing words. You are more likely to hear errors than you are to catch them during a silent read.

✍️ Example: In addition✖️(to✔️) his pioneering work on on ✖️(1 on✔️) photosynthesis, Ingenhousz helped promote inoculation against smallpox.

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0 of 4 found.

French doctor Jean-Baptiste Denys performed the first blood transfusion 1667 when he transferred blood from a lamb to a 15-year-old patient. Crude tools like goose quills were used instead of needles. Despite that, the patient survived.

Later transfusions were were unsuccessful, and and the practice was banned by the French government. Further development of the of technique would have to wait the 19th century.

🎁 BONUS ROUND

❗️Find the single error in the selection.

0 of 1 found

Transfusions remained dangerous until Karl Landsteiner, an Australian scientist, discovered Human blood types in 1901. He later received the nobel Prize for his work.

⭕️ Error Avoidance (writing) ❌

Benefits➕:
❎ ✅ Stop mixing up commonly confused words ;
📄✔️ Eliminate distracting errors in your writing .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Decide if the highlighted words are to be SWAPPED or KEPT in given sentences.

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