1. Development

1. I saw my teacher, Miss Gray.

Why are the words Miss Gray put into this sentence? What other word in the sentence means the same person? How are the words Miss Gray separated from the rest of the sentence?

2. Raymond Curtis, my cousin, has been visiting me. Why are the words my cousin used in this sentence?

Whom do they mean? How are they separated from the rest of the sentence?

2. Rule

A name that immediately follows another name, and means the same thing, should be separated from the rest of the sentence by the comma.

3. Exercises

a. Copy these sentences, using commas when necessary:

1. I should like to have you meet my friend James Wilson.

2. Do you know the poem John Gilpin's Ride?

3. Mr. Wampler Roy's father lives a block from my home.

4. A great ship the Titanic was wrecked.

5. The Arabs a wandering people live in the desert.

6. We are studying about Columbus the discoverer of America.

7. Is the book Robinson Crusoe in the library?

b. Write six sentences in which you use the comma according to this rule.

c. Find some sentences in your reader in which commas are used in the same way.