When you have two independent clauses joined by a conjunction, (and, or, but, because...) you put a comma before the conjuction.
Ex. Bobby eats cheese everyday, but Joe eats chocolate everyday.
COMMA WITH AN INTRO CLAUSE
When you use an intro clause in a sentence with an independent clause, you must use a comma directly after the intro clause.
Ex. After school, I walked to Papa Nicks to get a creemee.
I LOVE YOU COMMA
When you write speech that is directly pointed at a person and uses their name, you must offset the name with a comma.
Ex. Go take out the trash, Claire.
COMMA SPLICE
Comma splice is used when you connect two independent clauses with a comma. Two easy ways to solve this problem is to change the comma to a semi-colon or to a period and capitalize the beginning of the new sentence.
AFFECT/EFFECT
Affect generally means to influence or change (verb) while effect generally means the outcome (noun) or to bring about (verb).
FEWER/LESS
Less is used with things that cannot be measured and with adjectives and adverbs while fewer is used with measurable things.
Ex. She is less happy than she was last year.
She has fewer marbles than he has.
THAN/THEN
Than is used when you are comparing two things and then is used to describe an order of events.
Ex. My dog is bigger than yours.
Then, the house burned down.
PRONOUN AGREEMENT
The pronoun that you use must agree with the noun it is replacing
Ex. The boys went to the store. They bought two apples.
Someone has forgotten to pick up their shoes.
George jumps very high. He is an Olympic jumper.
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