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Car Wash Day: Fixing Series Commas

Grade 5 punctuation practice: spot, fix, and write series with commas in sentences about a class car wash fundraiser.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.5.2.a

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 9 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students use commas to separate words, phrases, and clauses in a series.
  • Students name and fix common comma mistakes in sentences with a series.
  • Students revise sentences into a series with correct commas.

How to use

Review the rule box together, then have students work alone or with a partner. Go over the matching question as a class so students can name each kind of comma mistake.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.5.2.a

Use punctuation to separate items in a series.

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Car Wash Day: Fixing Series Commas

Spot, fix, and write series with commas in the right places.

Spot and build a series

A series is a list of three or more items in one sentence. Put a comma after each item except the last one, and put a comma before the and or or that comes before the last item.
Do not put a comma between the verb and the first item, right after and or or, or after the last item.

Ms. Okafor's fifth-grade class held a car wash in the school parking lot to raise money for a field trip. Kofi, Jada, Eli, Rosa, Sam, and Priya all signed up to help.
1.
Read the sign the class made. Underline each sentence that has a series.

Our class is raising money for a field trip.On Saturday, bring your car to the school parking lot.We will wash cars, vans, and trucks.The car wash starts at nine and ends at noon.We will vacuum the seats, clean the windows, and shine the tires.Thank you, neighbors, for helping our class!

2.
Jada wrote this sentence for the class newsletter.
We rinsed and scrubbed and dried twelve cars.
Which is the best way to write it as a series?
  • A. We rinsed scrubbed, and dried, twelve cars.
  • B. We rinsed, scrubbed, and dried twelve cars.
  • C. We rinsed, scrubbed, and, dried twelve cars.
  • D. We rinsed, scrubbed, dried, twelve cars.

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