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Use Commas in Lists

In this worksheet, students practise adding commas to separate items in a list.

'Use Commas in Lists' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 1

Year:  Year 2 English worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Writing: Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation

Curriculum subtopic:   Use Appropriate Punctuation

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

When we write lists, we put commas between the items to make them easier to read.

 

shopping bag

 

When I went shopping I bought eggs, cheese, bread, milk and apples.

 

Did you notice that there is no comma after the word milk? Instead of a comma we put in the word and before the last item on a list.

 

We need to include commas to separate items in the list, or it becomes hard to understand.

 

Look at this sentence where the commas have been missed out:

 

Tea was steak chips broccoli ice cream and jelly.

 

What are steak chips? Broccoli ice cream sounds disgusting!

 

angry boy

 

Of course, the sentence should go like this: Tea was steak, chips, broccoli, ice cream and jelly. 

 

Do you see how important those little commas are?

thumbs up

 

Let's have a go at some questions now and see if we can work out where to put those commas.

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