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Title: Additional commas uses and misuses

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S6-L1

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Step	Type	Explanation	Answer
1	Problem	According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.
2	Clue	Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.
3	Hint	A comma separates a phrase and clause in a sentence.
4	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?
5	Choice.A	According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors. The sentence is incorrect because it lacks proper comma usage before "the hilly areas". This sentence lacks the proper usage of punctuations.	No change
6	Choice.B	According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment, the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors. The sentence is correct grammatically as it uses commas appropriately to separate items in a list ("geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors"). Commas are also correctly placed around the nonessential clause "2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment," providing additional information without disrupting the sentence’s structure.	Assessment, the
7	Choice.C	According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment. the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors. The sentence is incorrect due to wrong punctuation after "Assessment." Position of period after "Assessment" incorrectly separates the subject from the predicate.	Assessment. the
8	Choice.D	According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment' the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors. The sentence is incorrect due to the misplaced apostrophe in Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment'. Proper punctuation is required after "Assessment".	Assessment' the
9	Step:	Correct sentence	According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment, the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.
10	Answer	Option	B
11	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Step

Type

Explanation

Answer

Problem

According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.

Clue

Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.

Hint

A comma separates a phrase and clause in a sentence.

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Choice.A

According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.

The sentence is incorrect because it lacks proper comma usage before "the hilly areas". This sentence lacks the proper usage of punctuations.

No change

Choice.B

According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment, the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.

The sentence is correct grammatically as it uses commas appropriately to separate items in a list ("geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors"). Commas are also correctly placed around the nonessential clause "2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment," providing additional information without disrupting the sentence’s structure.

Assessment, the

Choice.C

According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment. the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.

The sentence is incorrect due to wrong punctuation after "Assessment." Position of period after "Assessment" incorrectly separates the subject from the predicate.

Assessment. the

Choice.D

According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment' the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.

The sentence is incorrect due to the misplaced apostrophe in Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment'. Proper punctuation is required after "Assessment".

Assessment' the

Step:

Correct sentence

According to the State’s 2015 Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment, the hilly areas of Tokyo are vulnerable to landslides due to geological, meteorological, and anthropogenic factors.

Answer

Option

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Discussion: Explanation1 Explanation2 Explanation3 Explanation4 Explanation5