Section 1 – Introduction to "Complete Punctuation: Beginner To Advanced Professional"
Section 2 – The comma
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Introduction to the comma (3:01)
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The listing comma (6:00)
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The joining comma (4:47)
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The bracketing comma (11:00)
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Which or that? Comma or not? (2:42)
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Quiz 1 – Listing, joining and bracketing commas
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The gapping comma (2:58)
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Commas with lists of adjectives (6:57)
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Commas with lists of adjectives - some more examples (4:07)
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Commas with appositives - or renamed words (7:07)
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The vocative or calling comma (3:35)
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Quiz 2 – advanced
Section 3 – The full stop/period
Section 4 – The hyphen
Section 5 – The colon, the semicolon and the dash
Section 6 – Brackets
Section 7 – Inverted commas/quotation marks
Section 8 – The question mark, exclamation mark and ellipsis
Section 9 – Bullet points
Section 10 – The apostrophe
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Introduction: The two basic uses of the apostrophe (3:42)
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Practice activity: test your understanding of contraction and possession
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Three occasions you should NEVER use an apostrophe (3:56)
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Practice activity: test your apostrophe knowledge
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Quiz 9 – Introduction to apostrophes
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Contractions: Its or it's? (3:26)
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Practice activity: Its or it's?
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Contractions: Whose or who's? (2:46)
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Practice activity: Whose or who's?
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Contractions: Your or you're? (1:44)
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Practice activity: The difference between your and you're
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Contractions: We're, were or where? (1:47)
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Practice activity: the difference between we're, were and where
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Contractions: theirs or there's, they're or there? (2:00)
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Practice activity: theirs or there's, they're or there?
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Contractions: Would've or would of? (2:07)
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Quiz 10 – Contractions: common confusions
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Possession: s apostrophe or apostrophe s? (2:43)
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Practice activity: s apostrophe or apostrophe s?
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Possession: children's, childrens or childrens'? Ladies or ladies'? (3:39)
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Practice activity: apostrophes with irregular plurals
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Possession: Ten years experience or ten years' experience? (1:55)
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Quiz 11 – s apostrophe or apostrophe s?
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Apostrophe niggles: apostrophes in names and places (3:26)
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Apostrophe niggles: numbers and dates (100s or 100's? 1970s or 1970's?) (3:34)
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Apostrophe niggles: CDs or CD's? (And the do's and don'ts of p's and q's) (2:54)
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Quiz 12 – Apostrophe niggles: test your knowledge
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Practice activity: correct this memo
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How to catch every rogue apostrophe (1:30)
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Test your knowledge of punctuation
