Commas

Directions: Correct any comma errors in the sentences below.  Leave the sentence alone if it is correct.

1. The Writer's Resource Lab will open its doors for business in September and close them for winter recess in December.

 

 

2. We didn't want to go to the track meet to watch Jake run around in circles with a bunch of other morons, we wanted to go to the beach.

 

 

3. Fearing that the skipper would beat him over the head with his hat Gilligan ran toward the beach and climbed a coconut tree.

 

 

4. Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady on "The Brady Bunch," has fallen into total obscurity since the show's cancellation in the early 1970's.

 

 

5. The man was released from prison 10 years early for good behavior, but was reimprisoned for murder less than two weeks after his release.