✏️ Grammar & Conventions: Nonrestrictive Elements (Grade 6)

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Use commas, parentheses or dashes to set off nonrestrictive elements.

1. Punctuate the nonrestrictive element: Our dog a golden retriever loves to swim.

2. Punctuate the nonrestrictive element: The test which was hard took an hour.

3. Punctuate the nonrestrictive element: Mount Everest the tallest mountain is in Asia.

4. Punctuate the nonrestrictive element: My uncle who lives in Ohio is visiting.

5. Punctuate the nonrestrictive element: Ms. Diaz our coach was proud.

Answer key: 1) Our dog, a golden retriever, loves to swim. · 2) The test, which was hard, took an hour. · 3) Mount Everest — the tallest mountain — is in Asia. · 4) My uncle, who lives in Ohio, is visiting. · 5) Ms. Diaz, our coach, was proud.

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Free Grade 6 English worksheet (Common Core L.6.2.a): use commas, parentheses or dashes to set off nonrestrictive elements. Skill: Use commas, parentheses or dashes to set off nonrestrictive elements. Level: Grade 6 — also suits Year 7 (UK).

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CCSS L.6.2.a: Use commas, parentheses or dashes to set off nonrestrictive elements
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Use commas, parentheses or dashes to set off nonrestrictive elements.

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