Using commas
The boy, who was very tall, was a great basketball player. 😍
In the sentence above, the words in between the two commas give us extra information. These words could be left out and the sentence would still make sense.
In the story below there are some sentences that give extra information. Your task is to put commas ( ) around the extra information. The first pair of commas has been put in for you.
Old Mrs MacGinty who had lived in her house for sixty-five years
was having a garage sale. She wanted to clear out some of the clutter from her house. The sale which was being held on Saturday, had been advertised in the local paper. There was also a sign on Mrs MacGinty’s front gate.
On Friday night, Mrs MacGinty went down to the garage to check that everything was in order, for the next day. The blue and white dinner set was going for a bargain, she thought at fifty-five dollars. The grandfather clock, although running a little slow did still go. The vase which she had been given, as a twenty-first birthday present, had a small crack but you'd hardly notice it. When Mrs MacGinty looked at herself in the oak-framed mirror, which used to hang in the spare bedroom, she wondered how the years had flown by so quickly.
Mrs MacGinty who by this time was beginning to feel a little shaky sat down. She looked slowly around at all her things. She thought and she thought. Suddenly she got to her feet. A gleam came into her eyes. Mrs MacGinty marched as well as a little old lady, with wobbly knees can out to the front gate and took down the garage sale sign.
"After-all," Mrs MacGinty said to herself, "you can't sell your
memories."
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