Punctuation

Tips

1. Every sentence needs a capital letter at the start and a full-stop at the end.
2. Do the online quizzes below.

 

Is punctuation important?

Punctuation is needed to show what we mean. Punctuation is powerful.

Retrieved from http://krishna-fun.blogspot.com/2006/03/punctuation-is-powerful.html

 

Basic punctuation

Every sentence needs a capital letter at the start and a full-stop at the end.

Which is correct?

1. he is happy today he just bought a new car
2. He is happy today. he just bought a new car
3. He is happy today. He just bought a new car
4. He is happy today. He just bought a new car.

 

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Capital Letters

Quiz:

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/lifeintheuk/liverpool/punctuation-quiz.html

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Commas

Quiz:

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commas_1.asp

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Apostrophes

Contractions

Which is incorrect?

a. They’re

b. Isnt’

c. It’s

d. Doesn’t

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Answer d, c, b, a

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Possessive S vs Simple Plurals (e.g. cars vs car’s vs cars’)

Tutorial 1 (brief)

 

Tutorial 2 (longer)

Quizzes:

Which is incorrect?

1. He ate the guy’s apple.
2. He ate the guys’ apples.
3. They ate the guy’s apples’.
4. They ate the guy’s apples.
5. They ate the guys’ apples.
6. The guys ate the apples.

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Answer:  They ate the guy’s apples’.  is incorrect. They ate the guy’s apples. is correct. Also They ate the guys’ apples. is correct.

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Easier http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/mc-plurals.html

Harder http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/apostrophes_1b.asp

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Contractions vs Possessive S (e.g. John’s Ok vs John’s car      it’s vs its)

John’s Ok. = contraction

John’s car is Ok.= possessive

 

Tutorial: http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/How-To-Use-An-Apostrophe.htm

Easier Quiz

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/39.html

It’s vs its (coming soon)

Harder Quizzes

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/take-apostrophe-quiz

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/aps.htm

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 ? or !

http://www.eslcafe.com/quiz/punctuation1.html

(more coming soon)

 

All punctuation

http://www.eslcafe.com/quiz/punctuation2.html

http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/punctuation.html