Punctuation

A1–B1

The marks that shape meaning and rhythm in written English, from full stops to quotation marks.

Lessons in this category

Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks — the essentials.

Possession and contractions — the two jobs an apostrophe does.

Where commas belong — and the common mistakes that come from misplacing them.

Punctuating direct speech and quotations correctly.

Semicolons, colons and dashes — punctuation for more complex sentences.

Frequent punctuation mistakes, and how to fix them.