English Language Writing Skills

By Danso Kwasi Nti Samuel (DAS). Study the complete course source, examine every model and practise alongside Professor Jarvis.

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For tables, matching columns, IPA and original formatting, open the course PDF above.

Exercises

The following sentences contain punctuation errors. Identify the mistakes and rewrite the

sentences with the correct punctuation.

1. The students enjoyed the field trip to the zoo they saw lions tigers and bears.

2. Sarah asked why are you late to the meeting.

3. John’s backpack, which was left at school was found in the lost-and-found box.

4. "Im going to the store" said Emily do you need anything.

5. The movie was great but the ending was disappointing.

Exercise 2:

Choose the correct punctuation mark (comma, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark,

semicolon, colon, dash, apostrophe, or quotation marks) to complete each sentence.

1. My brother forgot to do his homework __ he didn’t get to play video games.

 a) .

 b) ;

 c) ,

2. Can you believe we won the championship__

 a) ?

 b) !

 c) .

3. The teacher asked __Why didn’t you complete the assignment__

 a) ,
 b) ""
 c) ""