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Punctuation Essentials — Commas, Semicolons & More
Laser-focused course on English punctuation — commas, semicolons, colons, apostrophes, dashes, quotation marks. Master the rules native speakers often get wrong.
Lessons
42
Practice tests
28
Worksheets
1
Videos
1
What you will learn
- Apply comma rules correctly (Oxford comma, comma splices, lists)
- Use semicolons and colons confidently in formal writing
- Master apostrophes for possession and contraction
- Punctuate quotations, dialogue and parenthetical asides
- Stop relying on grammar checkers — know the rules yourself
Course outline
Top-level modules from the existing category tree, nested into sub-topics. Pick any lesson from any module — there is no fixed order.
Punctuation
42 lessons · /category/punctuation/
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Punctuation — general
42 lessons
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Brackets
5 Q
Angle Brackets
5 Q
Apostrophe
15 Q
Backslash
15 Q
Capitalization Rules
5 Q
Chris's vs. Chris'
5 Q
Colon
5 Q
Comma
15 Q
As Well As Comma
5 Q
Comma Splice
5 Q
Curly Brackets
5 Q
Do You Capitalize Seasons
5 Q
Ellipsis
5 Q
Dashes
15 Q
Em Dash
5 Q
Em Dash vs. En Dash vs. Hyphen
5 Q
En Dash
5 Q
Exclamation Mark
5 Q
Forward Slash
15 Q
Full Stop
15 Q
How to Quote a Quote
5 Q
Capital Letters
5 Q
Hyphen
15 Q
Oxford Comma
5 Q
Parentheses - Brackets - Quotation Marks - Ellipsis
5 Q
Parentheses
15 Q
Punctuation Marks
15 Q
Question Mark
15 Q
Quotation Marks
5 Q
Semicolon
5 Q
Semicolon vs. Colon
5 Q
Single Quotation Marks
5 Q
Title Capitalization
5 Q
Comma Before or After But
5 Q
Comma Before "While"
5 Q
Comma Before Which
5 Q
Comma Before "And"
5 Q
Comma Before "So"
5 Q
Comma Before "Such As"
5 Q
Comma Before Because
5 Q
Comma Before Or
5 Q
Slash
15 Q
Quick quiz
A 5-question quiz from any lesson in this course. Pass at 60%+ to earn up to 5 XP and mark the lesson complete.
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Video lessons
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Playlist
1 videos
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