Thursday, 10/19/17

1. Grammar Practice from the Board

2.  Review page 2 of the comma handout

• Handout on Commas
• Page 2 requires knowledge of restrictive and nonrestrictive appositive modifiers.  
• Here is a review to help you on restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives.
• Here is another review page if you'd like to look through another.  

• In short:

•  "Restrictive" elements narrow down the specificity as you read. 
• The writer C. S. Lewis was gifted.  ("The writer" is less specific than "C. S. Lewis," so the latter words narrow down or specify the noun, and it's a restrictive situation needing no commas).

•  "Nonrestrictive" elements don't narrow the noun down.  The specific (person, place, item) is stated first, and the words or phrases add extra info. 
• C. S. Lewis, the writer, was gifted. ("C. S. Lewis" is already entirely specific, so the fact that he's a "writer" is just more information, making it nonrestrictive and requiring commas). 

3.  In class: Make five sentences featuring restrictive and five sentences featuring nonrestrictive commas.

HW:  Copy rules and provide examples for all comma rules on page 3 of our handout on commas.