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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Punctuation and Capitalization 2. Which of the following sentences is incorrectly punctuated?

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00:04

Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by pauses important in

00:08

everyday speech but arguably even more important to video game players who [Boy playing video game]

00:11

really really really need to use the bathroom all right which of the

00:14

following sentences incorrectly punctuated and here are your potential

00:18

answers....we'll give you a hint sometimes commas signal when the [Arrow points to comma in sentence]

00:24

pause in a sentence is supposed to come they're not quite as good at signaling

00:28

pauses in traffic, that's why we have crossing guards all right what does

00:32

option A have to say for itself well this one signals a pause right before Maria [Hand points to comma]

00:36

which is a great place to signal a pause when you're addressing someone

00:40

it's a good idea to signal a pause with a comma right before their name

00:43

whether you're talking to Maria or Queen of England although it should probably

00:46

expect some bowing there too. So A is certainly polite, but not the one we're [Man bows to the Queen of England]

00:49

looking for what about B another comma another great place for a pause

00:53

probably a lot better than the stroganoff too....

00:57

Alright so be is gone what about D well this sentence doesn't have any commas

01:00

but it doesn't really need them Franz's cat may have four paws but sentence

01:04

doesn't have any pauses, all right what about C well you see one comma before

01:09

Hector's address which is excellent so all's well and good with C right? Er not

01:13

quite try reading the sentence aloud yourself unless you're on an airplane [Man speaking out loud on an airplane]

01:16

then you might annoy the guy sitting next to you without a comma after no,

01:20

the sentence is kind of a rushed mess there isn't it well the reason is that

01:24

without the comma at the beginning there's nothing to signal to us that we're

01:27

supposed to take a quick breather no wonder we're out of breath.. [Man takes deep breath]

01:31

We definitely should be pausing there so C's our answer never underestimate the

01:34

importance of a good pause especially when you're trying to finish a video

01:37

game's final level on expert mode after consuming a full four liters of Mountain [Boy pauses game and runs to the toilet]

01:41

Dew

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