THE COMMA Punctuation Marks Grammar and Spelling for Kids

smile and learn Hello friends my name's Kama I'm superhero in the punctuation marks team my mission in this crazy world is well actually have many missions can tell you all about them if you like to start with let me tell you that all punctuation marks are very important we use them to communicate better and express clearly our ideas when we write read or speak today you'll learn all about me the cava foreign to indicate pause in speech think it would be easier if showed you some examples with story after long day stealing around the city the thieves were hungry so they decided to order some takeout food for dinner don't confuse the full stop with the comma the pause of the comma marks is bit shorter and the initial of the word that follows comma is NOT capitalized proper names would be an exception but that's another story let's focus on this one for now there are four places to use comma in text to separate items in an enumeration to clarify meaning to separate person's name when addressing them directly and to join sentences using conjunctions know do so many things it's exhausting let's have closer look we use commas to separate items in an enumeration let's go back to our story Susan comma Cobra comma Cleo comma and Jack are members of dangerous band of criminals they can't make up their minds they want to have pizza comma Sushi comma and hamburgers for dinner we also use commas to explain something or clarify meaning let's have look Susan Karma as we're about to explain who she is is the head of the criminal band here we'll use another comma because it's where our explanation ends want pizza for dinner Cobra Karma the grumpiest of all four comma insists on ordering sushi Cleo comma the hungriest comma would eat huge hamburger and the last one is Jack comma the indecisive one comma because he can't decide what he likes most are you beginning to get the idea we also use commas when addressing someone directly to separate their name from the rest of the sentence let's see what happens in the story the head of the band wanted to show the team who was in charge Jack comma command you to cast your vote for pizza Jack lowered his head and replied Susan comma I'll do as you say and finally when we want to join two sentences using conjunctions the comma should always go before the conjunction and but so or for are common examples of conjunctions we would use to connect sentences let's go back to the story after waiting for an hour the doorbell rang it must have been the delivery man comma but they heard suspicious noises outside the door they opened the door comma so the delivery man could enter comma and give them the pizza to their surprise he was not alone the superhero and the police were with him they were there to arrest the whole gang wow what strange story well it helped us understand that we use commas as short pauses in text let's recap the four uses of the comma we use commas to separate items in enumeration to clarify meaning to separate person's name when addressing them directly and to add them before the conjunction when joining sentences well that was all about kama's friends see you soon we've learned so much in just one video did you know there are many more videos imagine how much you could learn subscribe to the smile and learn educational channel to learn and have fun at the same time