How to Punctuate Spelling: to improve spelling & writing
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- Use capital letters correctly & make their writing look more professional
- Use apostrophes for contractions and possession correctly
- Use memory tricks to help remembering which homophone is which in tricky words with apostrophes
- Learn how to use hyphens to make compound words and how to use them in compound adjectives
- Learn the proper punctuation for numbers, dates, and times in British and American English
- Native speakers who can read and write but need help with spelling
- Ideal for people who have finished the Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence course
- Ideal for anyone who needs to improve their business, academic, formal writing.
- ESL, second language, students who have excellent English.
From the creator of Udemy's popular Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence, comes the perfect follow-on course - How to Punctuate Spelling: to improve spelling & writing to give you even more spelling knowledge and confidence to spell, write and get your meaning across.
This is ideal for both American & British English users who need to understand and "master" the tricky punctuation marks we put in spellings, especially apostrophes (you're, I'm, Joanne's course) and hyphens (good-looking, a 3-year-old, sister-in-law). You'll also learn how to punctuate abbreviations (CD/CDs, Dr./Dr, gym), when to use capital letters (I've, Samsung, Harry Potter), and how to write dates, and time, and much more.
Knowing how to use these in your spellings will help you get your point across, will stop you getting confused and angry with spelling and yourself. Emails, and social media have all made writing important again, and it's a shame if you can't express yourself properly in these, or you spend so long trying to spell or figure out how to use an apostrophe, or not, that you give up. Knowing these will help you so much and make your writing look professional and not sloppy, or like you don't care.
It's a video based course with additional PDF worksheets for revision, and exercises and spelling tests in the Resources too,
- English speakers who need help with their spelling
You're going to learn how to get the most from this course, and about not getting stressed if you forget what you've learned or don't understand.
You're going to learn some key words that are useful to know, and which you’ll see throughout the course. You'll learn all about nouns, proper nouns, plurals, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, homophones, upper and lower case, formal and informal writing. You'll see these words and terms again in the lessons on capital letters, apostrophes, hyphens, and abbreviations, etc. Don't panic if you don't know these terms - a lot of us never learned these at school, but they are useful to know.
Find out why punctuation in spelling is important, learn how using proper punctuation help readers understand you, and gives you more choices to express yourself, and can improve spelling and grammar.
In part 1, you're going to learn the first ten uses of the capital letter and how they help people read and understand your writing. You'll see how using capital letters helps people know that you're talking about a "proper" person or thing in names, nicknames, addresses, titles, regions, compass points, and much more.
This is a quick introduction to the 4 types of abbreviations you're going to learn in this section. Don't worry if you forget the terms we're going to look at them in more detail in the individual lessons.
These contraction abbreviations are made when we remove the letters in the middle of the word, but we say the word in full.
You'll learn how some of these have full stop/periods in American English, but there's a rule about when to use a full stop/period in British English. You'll also learn how to punctuation etc. and e.g. and learn about the formal versions of these too.Learn all about where and why we add apostrophes in words to contract them. We'll look at words such as I'm, don't, won't, they're you're, it's, he's, she's, we'll, she'll, I'll, she'd, and how missing an apostrophe can make another word. Then do the exercises in the Resources, and then the spelling test in the next video.
This is the Apostrophes for Contractions Spelling Test. Do you have a pen and paper ready? Play the video, write what you hear and then pause the player (when told to) and check your spelling letter by letter, and check the apostrophe.
In the Resources, there's a PDF of the spelling test with exercises.
Homophones are words that have the same sound but different meanings and different spellings (there/they’re/their, your/you’re, its/it’s). There are hundreds of these in English but we don't get confused when we hear them because they make sense in the context of the sentence. But writing them and knowing which is which can trip up the most accomplished writer.
Learn how to use memory tricks to help with remembering which homophone to use, especially some common homophones that involve the apostrophe - there/they’re/their, your/you’re, its/it’s
After this, do the exercises in the Resources. Then the there/they’re/their, your/you’re, its/it’s spelling tests in the next three videos.
This is the they're, there, their spelling test. Do you have a pen and paper ready? Play the video, write what you hear and then pause the player (when told to) and check your spelling letter by letter, and check the apostrophe.
In the Resources, there's a PDF of the spelling test with exercises.
This is the You're or Your Spelling Test. Do you have a pen and paper ready? Play the video, write what you hear and then pause the player (when told to) and check your spelling letter by letter, and check the apostrophe.
In the Resources, there's a PDF of the spelling test with exercises.
Learn all about one-word indefinite pronouns: someone, nobody, anybody, everyone, everything and how to use them with apostrophes for contractions and possession. These common pronouns are used to refer to people, places and things in a general way and are very useful to know and spell.
You're going to learn all about hyphens, and how they "glue" words together to make new words (brother-in-law, ex-wife, good-looking, state-of-the-art, wheeler-dealer, short-sighted) They can also change the meaning of a sentence if placed incorrectly.
Hyphen usage is complicated because it’s forever changing, so we'll explore the evolution of hyphens, and explain why we sometimes have more than one way of spelling some words, for example. email or e-mail, southeast, south east or south-east.
We're looking at some key prefixes and hyphens. Remember prefixes are little words, or a letter, we put at the beginning of words to change the meaning. Sometimes we add hyphens with prefixes sometimes not. You'll learn, and revise, when to put hyphens with proper nouns, with ex- and self-, and with single letter prefixes (T-shirt, A-list...).