Video: Types of punctuation

Video: Types of punctuation

Narration: Academic writing – punctuation. If you are only looking for a mid level result in your IELTS test, ensuring all your punctuation is correct is not essential. However, if you are looking to get a high result you will need to make sure that you have written...
Summary of this lesson

Summary of this lesson

In this lesson you should have learned… about the different types of punctuation the four rules that govern using commas the four rules that cover semi colons the two rules for using colons the two rules that apply to apostrophes Now take the end of lesson...
Essential vocabulary for this lesson

Essential vocabulary for this lesson

To complete this lesson, you will need to know the following vocabulary. When you are sure you know all the words, continue to the next page. STRIKE TOLERATE RESTRICT EXPOSE IMPLEMENT MAINTAIN BENEFICIAL...
Aims of this lesson

Aims of this lesson

By the end of this lesson, you will know: about the different types of punctuation the rules for using commas accurately the rules for when to use semi colons the rules for colons the rules for how to use apostrophes
Dependent prepositions

Dependent prepositions

Certain verbs, adjectives and nouns naturally take certain prepositions when placed in a sentence – these are called dependent prepositions. For example, you can object to (something), participate in (something), complain about (something). Unfortunately there...