Question

Which of the following sentences use commas correctly?

Answer 1

Answer:

b. Please submit your proposal before October 15, 2008.

e. When she returned to work after maternity leave, she learned that her office had been relocated to the second floor.

Explanation:

Commas may be used in different conditions, depending on the sentence. It may be used to list a number of items, or separate two or more clauses and so on.

In the given sentences, the correct usage of the comma will be dealt in one by one.

a. This sentence provides more than two ideas so there has to be a comma to act as a pause, or separation for these ideas. So, the comma will come after "sign in" and "register".

b. The sentence is correct in its usage of the comma, for it correctly used it in separating the date and the year.

c. Since the sentence is one complete sentence, there is no need to use the comma in between. It talks of just one flow of sentence.

d. The sentence have two parts in which it presents two contrasting parts of the subject. So, there should be a comma right after "proposal", to present a pause and to denote a coordinating conjunction.

e. the sentence is correct for it presents two sentences that are dependent on each other, having the same relation to one another. The comma separates the dependent clause with the independent clause.

Thus, the correct answers are options (b) and (e).

Answer 2

Answer:

Option B

Explanation:

The use of comma's is to introduce a pause in the course of reading a sentence, they are also used to differentiate sentences, or to divide sentences that has separate meanings. But from the above question, Option B explains better, because in the use of commas, there are rules in using commas and basically when writing a number in a sentence, you must introduce a comma after the number, which in option B it was use. Option B is the right answer.