Punctuation

Key Stage 3 (11-14 years)

This is the fifth in a series of units covering grammar and punctuation.

The units cover information as follows:

English Grammar 1
• Words in context
• The simple sentence (subject and predicate)
• Verbs; transitive and intransitive, active and passive.
• Nouns; common and proper, collective, abstract.

English Grammar 2
• Inflection
• Verbs; number, person,tense.
• Nouns and pronouns; number, gender, case, possession.

English Grammar 3
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Adjectival and adverbial phrases
• Complex sentences; conjunction and compound.

English Grammar 4
• Words; stems, prefixes, suffixes, Greek prefixes.

Punctuation (this unit)
• Full stops
• Exclamation marks
• Capital letters and Questions marks
• Commas and Colons
• Hyphens, Dashes, Apostrophes.
• Brackets (parentheses)
• Quotation marks.

Contents

• Introduction
• Full Stops
• Exclamation Marks
• Capital Letters and Question marks
• Commas and Colons
• Hyphens, Dashes and Apostrophes
• Brackets (Parentheses)
• Quotation Marks