Grammar is important for classroom assignments, being professional, and everyday communication. Proper use of commas includes listing commas, joining commas, gapping commas, bracketing commas, interjecting commas, and speech commas. Common grammar mistakes include confusing its/it's, your/you're, their/there/they're, who's/whose, then/than, lose/loose, alot/a lot, and definitely/definitly. Capitalization rules include capitalizing the first and last words of titles, names of days but not seasons, and the first word of salutations and complimentary closes.

2. Why is grammar important?
• Classroom assignments
• Being professional
• Teachers/Professors
• Employers
• Everyday world

3. Commas
•Listing comma
•Joining comma
•Gapping comma
•Bracketing comma
•Interjecting comma
•Speech comma
http://www.jprof.com/writing/rulesforusingcommas.html

4. Listing (Oxford) Comma
A listing comma
can always be
replaced by the
word and or or.
http://iroirodori.blogspot.com/2012/01/oxford-comma.html

5. Joining Comma
A joining comma
must be followed
by one of the
connecting
words and, or, but,
yet or while.
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-use-commas

6. Gapping Comma
A gapping
comma indicates
that you have
decided not to
repeat some
words which
have already
occurred in the
sentence.

7. Bracketing Comma
Bracketing commas
always come in pairs
and they always set off
a weak interruption
which could in principle
be removed from the
sentence.

8. Interjecting Comma
This is the
comma to
indicate a
pause in the
sentence.
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/punctuation-saves-lives/

9. Speech Comma
Before you
use quotation
marks, you
should insert
a comma
http://cheezburger.com/cratchmaster/lolz/View/5760568576

10. Wrong Word
•its/it’s
•your/you’re
•their/there/they’re
•who’s/whose
•than/then

11. it’s its
is a contraction for indicates
it is or it has possession

12. your/ you’re
Your: describes
possession. In other
words, you own
something.
You’re: is a
contraction of “you
are”

13. then/than
Then is used Than is used
for time as in in comparison
to show the to show the
order in which quality of an
you did a items or
series of person versus
events. another item
or person.

14. their/there/they’re
Their: is
possessive meaning
it owns something.
There: refers to
a place or idea.
They’re: is a
contraction of “they
are”

15. who’s/ whose
Who’s is a Whose poses
contraction of the question
“who is” of possession

16. Capitalization
15 rules of
capitalization
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/Grammar-Capitalization-Rules.html

17. Rule Number Eight
Always capitalize the
first and last words of
titles of publications
regardless of their
parts of speech.
Capitalize other words
within titles, including
the short verb
forms Is, Are, and Be.
http://www.goodexperience.com/tib/archives/2006/02/dummies_book_ti.html
http://damnwonderfulworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/12-strange-book-tittle.html

18. Rule Number Eleven
Do not capitalize
names of seasons.
http://seasonswithpurpose.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html

19. Rule Number Twelve
Capitalize the
first word of a
salutation and
the first word of
a complimentary
close.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/81328571/Chrysanthemum-Letter-Home-Ms-Dyer-Website

20. http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/2011/02/15-most misspelled-words/

21. Lose/Loose
Opposite Opposite
of win of tight
http://typingwithfakenails.blogspot.com/2011/10/dominican-profile-of-week-juan-bosch.html
http://janinvuosi.co.cc/about.html

22. alot/a lot
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

23. definitely/ definitly
http://greenlagirl.com/clicklist-definitely-the-american-dream/

24. Information from…
• http://www.copyblogger.com/5-common-mistakes-that-make-
you-look-dumb/
• http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctua
tion/node14.html
• http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/capital.asp
• http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling