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.”