Writing help . Punctuation !!!!!?

Question

Are the commas in the following sentences right or wrong :
1- This house has 3 rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom .
2- Nasar has beans, onions, rice and soft drinks .
3- This house was old, dark, and ugly .
And can u please tell me why ?

Answer 1

Study how to do commas in a serial and you'll know if they're right or wrong. AKA study the chapter you just had before given this homework.



This is funny. Yeah, trust the honors student.

Answer 2

Someone said that for the first one you'll want to use a semi colon ; that is wrong! A semi colon links two similar sentences but when you read it, it has to make sentence if both were by themselves. So for example on yours it would be "This house has 3 rooms." This makes sense. Then "A kitchen and a bathroom." (By the way, that's only 2 rooms) this sentence is a fragment. It doesn't make sense. Now if you said "This house has 3 rooms; it had a kitchen and a bathroom." That would some what make sense but instead of using the semi colon just simply place your commas like this:

"This house has 3 rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom." However once you add your other room that you forgot (lol) it would be this "This house has 3 rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a......"



For the second one you're almost right but it should be "Nasar has beans, onions, rice, and soft drinks." Because you need a pause there. With every comma there is a pause "Nasar has beans, (pause) rice, (pause) onions, (pause) rice, (pause) and soft drinks. The way you have technically isn't wrong though; however, most people do it how I showed you.



The third one is correct! Nice :D



Hope I helped :)

Answer 3

Every single answer here is failing to address one thing: The Oxford comma. Some argue it's necessary, others say it isn't. As a journalist, we are taught to NOT use the Oxford comma and instead follow what AP Style says to do. That is, we leave out the Oxford comma.



Also, there seems to be some serious confusion about the first one.



If people put the semi-colon then it appears a room is missing. Writing, "This house has three rooms; a kitchen and a bathroom" makes it look awkward. With a semi-colon you are looking for what that third room is. If it's written, "This house has three rooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom" that makes it correct (with or without the Oxford comma). Or if you wrote, "This house has three rooms; a kitchen, bathroom, and dining room" that would also make it correct.



The word that seems to be throwing people off is rooms. It's ambiguous because a kitchen and a bathroom ARE their own separate rooms, however, this sentence appears to be mentioning the three BEDrooms in addition to the bathroom and kitchen.



The second two are both correct based on whether you use that pesky Oxford comma. If you're a journalist who follows AP Style, chances are high you won't. If you are in an English class, chances are high you will.

Answer 4

In sentence 1, the comma there is correct, but you need a comma after kitchen, because your setting up a list of what the house has in it. If you leave it as it is, your saying that the house has three rooms which are a kitchen and a bathroom, and that doesn't make sense, because those are only two rooms ,and you said three.



In sentence 2, all you need is a comma after rice because again there is another list



In sentence 3, all the commas are correct.



In all of these, you didn't really need to take out any commas you needed to add some or just leave it as it is.

Answer 5

There is a difference of opinion as to whether the last item in a series should have a comma before it. I generally don't put one, but many people do.



Yes, the first sentence should have a colon instead of a comma.



The book 'Eats shoots and leaves' is a readable guide to punctuation.



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Answer 6

They are all right!! :D



Unless you read the third one wrong, in which you should have missed out the comma before and. But sometimes, this can be an exception for the way you pronounce it.



This is how I was taught :)

Answer 7

1. wrong (This house has three rooms; a kitchen and a bathroom.)

2.wrong (Nasar has beans, onions, rice, and soft drinks.)

3.right