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When to Use a Comma with a Prepositional Phrase - Free Educational videos for Students in k-12


When to Use a Comma with a Prepositional Phrase - By WritingClass



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00:0-1 Hi . I'm here to talk about when to use
00:01 a comma with a proposition , all phrase in a
00:03 sentence . It really depends on how that proposition all
00:06 phrases being used if it's being used as an adjective
00:11 or it's describing the noun in a sentence . It
00:15 depends on if it's restrictive or non restrictive . So
00:18 , for example , the club with all 90 of
00:21 its members showed up at the restaurant . The basic
00:25 information here is that the club showed up in the
00:28 restaurant and the fact that it has 90 members .
00:31 You could take that out of the sentence , and
00:33 it would still make sense . That means it's non
00:36 restrictive , and you put commas around it . On
00:39 the other hand , the flowers from her other admirers
00:43 sat on her dresser . If she's received multiple bouquets
00:47 of flowers and you're trying to be clear , which
00:49 one it is , then that's restrictive , that you
00:53 needed in the sentence in order to keep the meaning
00:55 of the sentence . Whether or not to use a
00:58 comma with a prepositional phrase and a sentence also depends
01:01 on its placement in the sentence . For example ,
01:05 we will all have flying cars in the future that
01:08 reads pretty smoothly without a comma there . But if
01:11 you change the order in the future , we will
01:15 all have flying cars now in the future that prep
01:18 positional phrases being used as an introductory phrase . So
01:23 it has a pause after it . So you put
01:25 a comma there .
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Use a comma with a prepositional phrase if the phrase is non-restrictive, or if the prepositional phrase is being used as an introductory phrase. Avoid using a comma with a prepositional phrase if the sentence reads clearly without the comma. The teacher stands at her white board and shows examples as she lectures.

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When to Use a Comma with a Prepositional Phrase is a free educational video by WritingClass.It helps students in grades 4.

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