Punctuation Advanced

What this lesson covers

Punctuation Advanced is a 9-part Class 5 English lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.

How it begins

Punctuation is not decoration. It tells the reader how to group the words, and moving a single mark can reverse a sentence. "Let's eat, Grandma." "Let's eat Grandma."One comma is the difference between an invitation and something alarming. Good punctuation is really about being understood, not about following rules for their own sake.

The 9 parts

1. Punctuation carries meaning
2. What each mark does
3. The apostrophe, properly
4. its vs it's
5. Colons and semicolons
6. Punctuation in real writing
7. Where it usually goes wrong
8. What to remember
9. Watch one worked through