Learn how to make sentences easier to understand by using commas or hyphens.
Video summary
Radzi and some children visit a shopping arcade, where they look at a series of boards with confusing messages and insert commas or hyphens to make them easier to understand.
They visit a shopping arcade where there are a series of boards with messages written on.
There is a mini-tutorial explaining the use of a hyphen in 'man eating shark' or 'man-eating shark'.
One of the children is tasked with inserting comma(s) or hyphen(s) to clarify the meaning.
After the task, Radzi reviews each board and explains if the child is correct or not.
There is a detailed explanation of using commas in a list and also an explanation of how the word 鈥榓nd鈥 is used in a list sentence.
This short film is from the 大象传媒 series, Punctuation Rules.
Teacher Notes
Using commas in ambiguous list sentences is a tricky area of grammar to teach.
Pupils will benefit from the explanation about the comma before 鈥榓nd鈥.
Pupils could create their own boards on black paper to demonstrate their understanding of this.
This short film is relevant for teaching English language and literacy at KS2 and KS3 in England, Wales and Northern and 2nd Level in Scotland.
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