8 Punctuation Z-A
These Activities have been designed to help you master the 14 most common punctuation marks in English, from the simple full stop to the more complicated comma, apostrophe, hyphen, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon, and brackets. Understanding and using punctuation correctly is essential for making your written English clear and easy to understand. These exercises will help you to improve your understanding of when and how to use each punctuation mark to make your writing more effective.
Commas Challenge
I asked the OpenAI ChatGPT: “How do you use a comma in English sentences?” What it said I put in a video which you will find in this challenge. Watch the video and then you should know enough about the use of commas to get a perfect score in this challenge.
Commas - Punctuation for Students
Oscar Wilde, a great British writer, once admitted to spending an entire morning removing a comma from a poem. Asked if that was all he had done, Wilde replied, By no means: on mature reflection, I put back the comma. If a great writer like Oscar Wilde had difficulty in deciding where and when to use a comma, what chance have the rest of us got? In this lesson I will teach you about the history of the comma and about how to use it. You will learn about clauses, ambiguity, the Oxford comma, question tags, coordinating conjunctions, coordinate adjectives, dates, and more. Do ...
Colon Challenge
I asked the OpenAI ChatGPT: “Can you tell me about the colon, and how to use it?” What it said I put in a video which you will find in this challenge. Watch the video and then you should know enough about the use of colons to get a perfect score in this challenge.
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