For my Grammar Mini Lesson to the class I picked to teach the proper usage of the comma. I worked on my presentation with James Hutchinson who is also in the class. Together we worked to create a powerpoint and a Kahoot quiz to present to the class.
Here is the link to the powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/a/une.edu/presentation/d/1Mlpf1pB1VDbowr9rS1gz_q51nk5jjWh3IzJoJ-ByPmc/edit?usp=sharing
This presentation goes over the proper uses of the comma. A comma is used to link two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction. The coordinating conjunction words are: for, nor, or, but, and, so, and yet. These words are used when combining two independent clauses, and without these words the sentence would be a comma splice.
The comma is also used when creating a list, linking two independent clauses, writing the date, and also writing location and addresses.
The Purdue Owl website was also a major help for this grammatical error.
When using introductory words it is important to use a comma because it finishes the phrase that you are saying.
Purdue Owl: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/
I had a lot of comma splices in my essays and once I learned what a comma splice was I learned how to fix it with the use of the Little Seagull Book. This book showed me the coordinating conjunctions and how to fix my writing to become a better writer. Proper comma usage was the main grammatical error I would make from paper to paper, and I really focused on correcting that error for paper number three. With the help of this presentation in learning how to fix this error I have become a better writer.
In my rough draft on my second essay that we were assignment to write I had two comma splices in my final three sentences of the paper.
Here is the link to my Rough Draft #2:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rgibBUy83fOK1x1kb7GcteHoQczcPjY2F3VjkW-3-wU/edit
As you can see on page 5 of my paper there are two comma splices in two of the final three sentences.
The first sentence is: With the usage of Duhigg’s three part formula and Hallward’s radio station, social change could finally be noticed by the United States government.
This sentence should be fixed and it should say: With the usage of Duhigg’s three part formula and Hallward’s radio station socail change could finally be noticed by the United States Government.
As you can see I have completely taken out the comma because there is no need for the comma there, and the sentence can be read clearly. The sentence directly after that is also a comma splice.
Second Sentence: Rallies starting in states with strong ties could lead to the awareness of others in other states, eventually rising to coast movements through weak ties.
This sentenced can be fixed and it should say: Rallies starting in states with strong ties could lead to the awareness of others in other states. Eventually rising to coast to coast movements through weak ties.
I could have also fixed this sentence by using a semicolon.
Semicolon usage: Rallies starting in states with strong ties could lead to the awareness of others in other states; eventually rising to coast to coast movements through weak ties.
These are ways to fix the comma splices I have made with proper usage of the comma. In my third essay I made sure that there were no comma splices, and if there are I will be very shocked that I missed fixing that error that I had made.
