comma puncuation help....

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Anonymous  #191296  Wed, 01 Feb 06 04:52 AM

Are the commas where they should be and the sentences that do not need a comma are they correct also. thanks..

1.      I can sell a car and you can get a job.

2.      Marta’s new house is great, but her utilities are expensive.

3.      On May 25, I will be finished with my classes, and ready to start my summer job.

4.      I just bought a lottery ticket and a stock option for my birthday.

5.      I want to live in Seattle when I retire, but I can’t afford it.

6.      Our teams will be competing next weekend, for the championship.

7.      My apartment is one block from campus, yet I take my car to campus every day.

8.      We bought a new house, and sold our car all in the same year.

9.      The arena can hold 5,000 people, but rarely gets over 3,000.

10.  The grand prize is a trip to Cancun and we won it.

  
Grammar Geek  #191548  Wed, 01 Feb 06 07:41 PM
 Anonymous wrote:

Are the commas where they should be and the sentences that do not need a comma are they correct also. thanks..

1.      I can sell a car, and you can get a job.

2.      Marta’s new house is great, but her utilities are expensive.

3.      On May 25, I will be finished with my classes, and ready to start my summer job. Delete the red comma

4.      I just bought a lottery ticket and a stock option for my birthday.

5.      I want to live in Seattle when I retire, but I can’t afford it.

6.      Our teams will be competing next weekend, for the championship.Delete the red comma

7.      My apartment is one block from campus, yet I take my car to campus every day.

8.      We bought a new house, and sold our car all in the same year. Delete the red comma

9.      The arena can hold 5,000 people, but rarely gets over 3,000.

10.  The grand prize is a trip to Cancun, and we won it.

You need a comma when you have two independent clauses (each with its own subject and verb).  On the other hand, when the same subject does both actions, you don't have a comma.  #6 is possibly okay, if you were going to pause when speaking that out loud.

  
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Anonymous  #511722  Fri, 09 May 08 05:57 PM

Do I need a comma in this sentence?  Since 1987 the Task Force has sponsored a state Interagency Conference.

  
Grammar Geek  #511744  Fri, 09 May 08 07:34 PM

You can put one after 1987, but it's not required.

You do, however, have some strange capitalization going on.

  
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