Commas in lists

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Commas in lists
How to get rid of and in our writing.
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Here is a shopping list

• Eggs
• Milk
• Apples
• Sausages

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Here is the list in a sentence

• I am going to buy eggs and milk and apples and
  sausages.

How can we improve this sentence?
Lets take out the and.
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Lets take out and.

• I am going to buy eggs and milk and apples and
  sausages.

and
and
and
What do we do now?
Lets put in some commas.
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Lets put in the commas
,

• I am going to buy eggs and milk and apples and
  sausages.

,
,
Is it right now?
We actually do need one and. Where does it go?
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Lets put in the one and
,

• I am going to buy eggs and milk and apples and
  sausages.

,
and
Well done! Youve improved the sentence by
adding commas.
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Now see if you can put the commas in this sentence

• The parrot had red and blue and

and
,
and
green and yellow
,
feathers.
Excellent work! Youve put the commas in the
right places.
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What to remember!

• When we are writing a list we put a comma
  between each of the items.
• We only need an and between the last two items.

Look at the sentences on the next slides. Click
on the one where the commas are used correctly.
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• My pens are blue and red, yellow, green.
• My pens are blue, red, yellow, green.
• My pens are blue, red, yellow and green.

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Whoops!

• Sorry the commas are not in the right place in
  that sentence.
• Click here to try again.

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Yippee!

• What a star!
• Click here to try the next one.

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• The cake had cherries, currants, and icing.
• The cake had cherries, currants and icing.
• The cake had cherries and currants, icing.

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Whoops!

• Sorry the commas are not in the right place in
  that sentence.
• Click here to try again.

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Yippee!

• What a star!
• Click here to try the next one.

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• The weather was dull and misty and, wet and
  cloudy.
• The weather was dull, misty and wet and cloudy.
• The weather was dull, misty, wet and cloudy.

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Whoops!

• Sorry the commas are not in the right place in
  that sentence.
• Click here to try again.

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Yippee!

• What a star!
• Click here to try the next one.

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• I bought pens, pencils, and, books.
• I bought pens, pencils and books.
• I bought pens and pencils and, books.

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Whoops!

• Sorry the commas are not in the right place in
  that sentence.
• Click here to try again.

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Yippee!

• What a star!
• Click here to try the next one.

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How did you do?

• Did you get them right?
• If you did you can go back to your table.
• If you got some wrong, click here to go back to
  the beginning of the slide show to try again.