13 Basic Punctuation Rules in English | Essential Writing Essential Series & Punctuation Guide
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This lesson is a brief summary of the most important punctuation rules and is perfect if you don't have time to watch all of my other videos before your test or exam! We will cover capitalization, periods, commas, apostrophes, plurals, colons, semicolons, hyphens, and more in this brief video!
At the end of this English lesson, we will have a practice session where you need to correct the punctuation of each sentence.
Me 8/8
For more practice, watch my follow-up video with a 25 question quiz on these basic punctuation rules: https://youtu.be/pnROvjJlgi4
Chapters:
Hello, thank you for the video. It can help students who have difficulty speaking English
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Period
In 5th line, the first word after but would be capital or small letter like, i or I
01:17 - Capitalize First Word
02:10 - Capitalize Proper Nouns
03:36 - Apostrophes and Plural Nouns
04:12 - Apostrophes and Contractions/Possessive Nouns
5/8 thank you ma'am :D
05:31 - Question Marks
06:01 - Exclamation Marks
I left school at 14 to do directly to work. It's amazing these days just how many people do not know the punctuation basics.
Here is my own created favourite (reference Asian squat toilets)
"I went to Asia and fell in, love!"
versus
"I sent to Aisa and fell in love!"
I even had a school vice-princpal insisting CHILDRENS' is correct instead of CHILDREN's ... (plural possessive)
07:15 - Commas in a List
08:25 - Commas and FANBOYS
Perfect explanation !Thank you so much
09:49 - Semicolons
11:05 - Colons
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11:47 - Hyphens and Compound Adjectives
12:40 - Hyphens and Compound Numbers
8/8
Here is a list of my full English Writing Essentials series below:
My English Writing Essentials Series:
I cannot believe I didn't understand how to use commas before, but there is a first time for everything. Thanks!
► Quotation Marks Rules - https://youtu.be/F_yYYoqkZl8
► Apostrophe Rules - https://youtu.be/gZ2SNzHON4E
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End sem (AEC) paper st 9AM
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► Capitalization Rules - https://youtu.be/KdJL9qJ8t0A
► Colon Rules - https://youtu.be/p40K494L7VQ
I got 4/8 and 4 mistakes 😅
► Semicolon Rules - https://youtu.be/Rr2UeP-rPVs
► Period Rules - https://youtu.be/GVdiQEtbrE8
I have been so insecure of my wrong use of punctuations, but it's because I am too lazy to study how to use them properly. know I know.
► Exclamation Mark Rules - https://youtu.be/z3Re_ygaErc
► How to Use the Serial Comma (Oxford Comma) - https://youtu.be/cVhMUT5boF4
Thank you so much! This was helpful!
► 8 Comma Rules - https://youtu.be/tLlfuIAjaC0
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I definitely need to keep watching this video. I know my punctuation is terrible or nonexistent idk why i can't recall a teacher actually giving me this lesson i remember just getting a lot of work packets and never tried learning myself because i always think im too dumb
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I got 6 over 8 🎉
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@Gentlemen_cadet7868/8
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I got seven correct
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@syahrulmubarok4121i got 7 out of 8
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@Blackroseycat8/8
@akosuaoforiwaa12031. Is incorrect because there's no capital letter at the start of the sentence, and there's no capital letter for the word December.
2. Is incorrect because a comma isn't needed in that sentence.
3. Is incorrect because there aren't any commas, and there isn't a colon.
4.Is incorrect because they forgot to add a hyphen.
5. Is incorrect because they forgot to add a comma before the word "but".
6.Is incorrect because they forgot to use a question mark.
7.Is incorrect because there shouldn't be an apostrophe in the word "car's".
8. Is incorrect because there should be an apostrophe in the word "youre"
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@russellcookson2962I got 7.5 / 8
@rajabtexFor questions 2
Can I put the fanboy and?
Thanks, this sorta helped.
@backroomswanderermcAmazing!! An American who understands grammar. And particularly, 'exclamation mark', not point!
My pet hates are:
Whether it's this or wether it's that...
If you will
At the minute
Bring it there
(Historic): he comes into the room and...
Back in the day
All nonsense
Are you angry?
The only one I got correctly:(
❤ Excellent accent.
@KABIRALI-u4eThe getto people should be forced to watch this on repeat, instead of prison sentences that they actually love!
@QuadriviumNumbersNoun person place thing idea
Verb to approach to a to do something to take action
Adjectives thing obejects or ideas perspective perceptions
I got 7/8! Thanks so much I’m really grateful you’re here
@ZoinkyzenidkThis is amazing
@PreciousChinaza-n8mI have been writing for years, and this video clear up many problems. Thanks for the grammar help.
@maxpower3050I realise your objective here was to explain basic English punctuation, so this isn't a criticism of that objective... Have you thought of a video on utilising punctuation and grammar to achieve better LLM output? It might require researching that specific training data and where it fits into the algorithm, and/or vector-positioning, but it could also be discernable from how AI-written product is identified; such as the proliferation of hyphenated-words😅
@my_incorrigible_mumvery helpful people who don't yet know how to punctuate please tune to this Chanel
@CALEBJOSHUA-b6j'Merge two words together' is a redundancy. Sorry. ❤ XXX
@cajsheen2594Punctuation is very essential if we want to be a writer.
@KNS5KIm 23, autistic, and often worry I am slow. The only videos i could find on this grammar and punctuation were "made for kids". Thank you for making this, not understanding/having been taught with patience does not =dim, education is a privellage,patience is a privellage etc,etc.
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