ACT® English COMMAS: EVERYTHING You Need to Know in 8 Minutes (Made Easy 🚀🚀🚀)

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ACT English comma rules can be confusing. They're actually not that hard. The reason most students (like myself) find/found them hard is because of the way they're taught (or not taught...). Comma rules, clause rules, and such English grammar essentials TAUGHT in a confusing, seemingly-contradicting way.
This short, 8-minute guide serves to make the learning process easier. There really are just a few BASIC concepts to this, and once those concepts are mastered, you're going to be WAY better at the English exam. Most grammar questions boil down to these basics, so knowing them is a powerful advantage!
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@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

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@ujjawalagrawal4127 2 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful thanks. I think I never understood what people meant by clauses and stuff, so this was great!!!

@5Academy 2 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! I didn't understand clauses until I was well into high school, too haha

@jonatanmartinez723 3 жыл бұрын

Just what I needed

@sarabadran2007 3 жыл бұрын

thank youu!!

@ThatLegoDude4687 3 жыл бұрын

This helped a lot!

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

@insidiousrock2175 2 жыл бұрын

I’m kinda confused on whether or not to put a comma before a dependent clause at the end of a sentence because some people say that you shouldn’t.

@therisenwizard8594 2 жыл бұрын

i dont think you need the comma before the dependent clause if it is at the end of the sentence.

@briannacruz8243 3 жыл бұрын

The sentence it is raining outside even though it is cold. My English teacher taught me that this sentence does not need a comma, but in your video, you said it does. I am having contradictory advice

@greenapple6404 3 жыл бұрын

The last part of that sentence is a dependent clause lacking a subject. " Even though It is cold " cannot stand on its own. It sounds nice to the ear but according to ACT (which is what we need to base our rules off of) sounding nice is standardized English.

@briannacruz8243 3 жыл бұрын

@@greenapple6404 thank you

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

You could write it without and it would be OK in conversational English, but the most-correct, most-technical way of writing it is with a comma.

@briannacruz8243 3 жыл бұрын

@@5Academy is it like this for all sentences in this context? For example, she read a story, well I laughed. Does the sentence need to, or no? Sorry, I am just a little confused.

@briannacruz8243 3 жыл бұрын

She made a story, while I laughed.

@danishpuri8783 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@AriCarli Жыл бұрын

Is "which" a subordinate conjunction in the last example? Also, can "which" ever be the subject of the sentence?

@catherinekaminski112 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your help! My prep teacher was talking about independent clauses and I was like I'm a published author and an AP Lang student and I have no idea what that is XD

@fahed3201 3 жыл бұрын

Will the ACT test us a lot on the last example you did in the video?

@greenapple6404 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. It is a standardized test so they all generally test 1 group of concepts worded in weird ways.

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

Just about all of the comma questions can be answered with these skills in mind!

@tristonstogsdill4924 Жыл бұрын

This definitely helps me understand the clauses better, but, what does this help with on the ACT? I am not quite understanding.

@kingklaus2115 Жыл бұрын

Basically if you can identify independent and dependent clauses, you can figure out where commas go. A comma will always fit between a dependent and independent clause. He should have said it outright but that’s what I got from the patterns in the video.

@MxDocWrite 3 ай бұрын

English PhD and ACT/SAT prep coach speaking: you have two major errors early on in your discussion that could lead to students getting answers wrong. First off, your first two examples of dependent clauses are actually sentence fragments. Fragments are phrases, not clauses, and the comma rules for phrases depend on the type of phrase you are working with. Clauses always have a subject and a verb, but dependent clauses always begin with a subordinating conjunction. This brings us to your second major error: your "independent, dependent" clause example should not have a comma separating the two. A sentence containing an independent clause and a dependent clause is called a complex sentence. The only time that you use a comma in a complex sentence is if the sentence begins with a dependent clause, and a comma will always follow this clause. Complex sentences that begin with an independent clause do not feature a comma separating the two. If students use the explanation you give here, they will answer several questions wrong because you gave them the wrong information.

@reniasaid2162 Ай бұрын

I was also confused about these two points, so I went to the comments to see if I was the only one. Thanks for your explanation😊.

@5Academy Ай бұрын

thanks for the feedback! 👍

@yeetz4073 3 жыл бұрын

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@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

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@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

It's great isn't it. Best $10 I spent

@yeetz4073 3 жыл бұрын

@@5Academy lmao yes what's pog about it is the recording feature; I could just record my teacher's entire lecture and rewatch it if I can :)

@katejacobsen4796 3 жыл бұрын

The best

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

No, you!

@yaii-6002 11 ай бұрын

why whcih surprises me is a dependent clause?

@lionelh7217 3 жыл бұрын

What University(ies) did you admit to? Decision video?

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

That was like 3 yago

@yeetz4073 3 жыл бұрын

are there going to be any Act cramming live stream for the one in March

@jananidharmarajan6395 3 жыл бұрын

^^february

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, for Feb 6 we will have one

@5Academy 3 жыл бұрын

What's your test date? Do a lot of others have that test date, too?

@ThatLegoDude4687 3 жыл бұрын

Mine is in April

@alpacino6859 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLegoDude4687 same

@MLCViper 7 ай бұрын

bros talking like his life depends on it

@rorybaker5799 Жыл бұрын

Let’s get the “FANBOYS” rules down now

@tommygutierrez1978 Жыл бұрын

you confused me?

@rorybaker5799 Жыл бұрын

This makes my tutor feel useless