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Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements

Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements - PowerPoint Presentation

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Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements - PPT Presentation

From the UWF Writing Labs 101 Grammar MiniLessons Series MiniLesson 40 Restrictive Elements Are essential to a sentence because they restrict or limit the meaning of the words they modify ID: 557618

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Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements

From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons Series

Mini-Lesson #40Slide2

Restrictive Elements

Are essential to a sentence because they

restrict

, or limit, the meaning of the words they modifyNot set off from the sentence with commasThe city which is known as the Mile High City has an altitude of one mile.Slide3

Nonrestrictive Elements

Although they add important information, are not essential to the meaning of a sentence

Set off from the sentence with commas

Denver, which is known as the Mile High City, has an altitude of one mile.Slide4

Examples

Restrictive

Last summer Thaun Le visited the Vietnamese village where she was born during the war. He who steals my purse

steals trash.

A man

who thinks he has no faults

has one

Good things come to people

who wait

.Slide5

More Examples

Nonrestrictive

Margaret

Thatcher, who was prime minister longer than anyone else in this century, made enormous changes in England. The book, old, dirty, and dilapidated, is one of my favorites.

The weatherman,

who on a rainy day had predicted sunshine

, called the rain “Oregon mist.”