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<b>Oh god, should this sentence have more commas???</b>

Oh god, should this sentence have more commas???

How Well Do You Actually Remember Elementary School Grammar?

Prepositions are words generally used in front of nouns and pronouns to show the relationship between those words and the rest of the words in a sentence.   
[Source](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/prepositions).

Behind!

Select the preposition in this sentence.

Adverbs are words that give information about verbs, adjectives, and/or other adverbs.   
[Source](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/adverbs-american).  
Correction: This post originally stated that there were two adverbs when there are, in fact, three.

Three!

How many adverbs are in this sentence?

Nonessential clauses add extra information to a sentence and are set off with a comma. [Source](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/05/)

Correctly punctuate this sentence.

"Who's" is a contraction that always means "who is" or "who has." "Whose," on the other hand, is used to indicate possession.  
[Source](http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/who&#39;s.html).

Whose!

Though both words can be used either as a verb or a noun, "affect" and "effect" do not overlap in meaning.  
[Source](http://web.ku.edu/~edit/affect.html).

The sentence's subject is a noun that is doing something in the sentence. Generally, if you just look to see what is "verb-ing" in a sentence, that word is the subject.  
[Source](http://web.ku.edu/~edit/affect.html).

Computer!

Select the subject of this sentence.

Quotation marks are used to indicate direct quotes and are set off with a comma after "said." In American English, the period is placed inside the closing quotation mark. [Source](http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp)

Place quotation marks in this sentence.

An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and expresses a full thought on its own. [Source](https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/01/).

There are 23 helping verbs, listed [here](http://taft.cr.k12.ia.us/Team%20Pages/6%20Purple%20Team%20Page/23_helping_verbs_chart.htm).

Since "I" is the subject, it should be placed immediately after the modifying clause ("Walking along"). Otherwise, it reads as if the cars are the ones doing the walking. [Source](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/dangling-participles)

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