Grade 3 Fall — Personal Narrative, Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses, and Morphology with Affixes and Roots
English · GR G3 eng.g3.f.gr.commas_in_addresses

Use commas in addresses (L.3.2.b)

Place commas correctly in a full address line: comma between city and state ('Boise, Idaho'), comma between street and city when written on one line ('123 Pine Street, Boise, Idaho 83702'), and comma after the state when an address sits inside a sentence ('We drove to Boise, Idaho, last summer.').

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
8
Typical minutes
25
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • eng.g4.f.gr.commas_in_dates_extended
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Common misconceptions
  • Omits the comma after the state when the address sits in a sentence ('We drove to Boise, Idaho last summer.').
  • Adds a comma between state and zip code (US convention: no comma there).

Exercise pool (2)

Diff Stem Type
2 Punctuate these 6 sentences with addresses, applying the comma rule. (1) we visited grandma in seattle washington last june. (2) my pen... punctuate addresses in sentences
2 Capitalize these 6 titles correctly: (1) the lion the witch and the wardrobe (2) where the wild things are (3) thanksgiving (4) the... capitalize titles