This comma splice test will show your grammar knowledge
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If you think you know commas, go ahead and try your hand at this quiz and see if you can identify which sentence in each set is using commas incorrectly!
What are your thoughts on this subject?
271 Comments
mikeyparry
6 / 10. You're A Pretty Impressive Grammarian! I should have done better though!
Alan Conyard
6/10. Not impressed; a bit too pernickity.
Audrey Lee
8/10 Grammar Master! Yaaay!😎
kbparker
Thank you for including the answers!
mikeyparry
6 / 10. You're A Pretty Impressive Grammarian! I should have done better though!
Alan Conyard
Very interesting quiz. Unusual topic. Thanks for answers.
Steve Bush
Steve Bush, my bad. Sorry. I misread the instructions.
Steve Bush
Steve Bush, my bad to my comment. It’s wrongly placed the comma. I missed the instructions. My bad.
Steve Bush
Madeleine Marbach, well, go back to #4. It marked A as correct. I am not sure with that one.
Arun Visvanathan
You don't use a comma before "and.
Jeff Carter
Arun Visvanathan, correct. You don’t put a comma before any conjunction.
kbparker
Thank you so much for the answers!
Helen Dakin
There were no incorrect usages in questions 7 and 8.
dwilliamsmustang
I am the worst abuser of commas. I'm shock I got 6 right! Probably wrote that wrong too!
Madeleine Marbach
A comma is placed before “and” if a complete sentence follows. Then it becomes a compound sentence.