Where do the commas go in this paragraph? I'm having trouble in my English class...?

Try to put the commas where you'd pause while speaking. I've put them in for you.

Many people who attend rock concerts in the Los Angeles area are amazed by one performer, Eloise Baugh. The 83-year-old grandmother introduces the main acts by break dancing and singing rap music. She looks like the main act when she performs. After she spins on the floor to wild applause, she springs to her feet and hears the crowd roar. That a woman in her 80s can break dance astounds younger people. She usually gives whoever sits in the first row a few "Break Dancin' Grannie" T-shirts. Although her granddaughter helps her to select the music, Eloise writes many of her own rap lyrics. She credits break dancing, which is vigorous exercise, for keeping her limber. Whatever else Eloise may do, she has proven that "old" doesn't mean "slow."

"After she spins on the floor to wild applause" is called an Introductory Dependent Clause because it is not a sentence in itself, but the rest (she springs...) is a complete sentence.

So the first of 3 needed commas goes after "to wild applause" to separate the two ideas in one sentence.

Same type of IDC is "Although her granddaughter helps to select the music". Put a comma after that.

Put comma #3 after "Whatever else Eloise may do", as that's IDC #3 at the beginning of a sentence in this paragraph.

applause, she

music, Eloise

dancing, which

exercise, for

do, she