Tag Archives: Commas

The Write Stuff Video Series: Punctuating Complex Sentences

For this video, I wanted to try something different. I’m using the computer instead of the chalkboard to show the two grammar rules for punctuating complex sentences. Let me know if you like this format or not. Thanks for watching! The Write Stuff Blog

The Write Stuff Video Series: Identifying Independent Clauses

As a follow-up to my last video Fixing run-on and comma-splice errors, here is some more instruction on identifying when you have a simple sentence with one subject-predicate set, a compound sentence with two subject-predicate sets, and a simple sentence with a compound subject and a compound predicate.

The Write Stuff Video Series: Fixing Run-On and Comma-Splice Errors

I have been teaching high-school English for ten years. I guess I’m slightly old-school because I believe that teaching students grammar will help them improve their writing. For those of you who are confused by this statement, there are many English teachers who don’t believe this is true; therefore, many students are graduating from highContinue reading “The Write Stuff Video Series: Fixing Run-On and Comma-Splice Errors”