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Comma Rules - Dates

Mike Thomson

Mike Thomson

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Enhance your grammar instruction with our comprehensive guide on comma usage in dates. Perfect for middle and high school ELA classrooms, this resource provides clear examples using student-relevant contexts like school dances, celebrity appearances, and sporting events. Students will quickly grasp when to place commas after days and years in dates through side-by-side corrected examples that make this punctuation rule stick. Designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing curriculum, this printable reference helps students apply proper date formatting across all writing assignments.

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