How To Punctuate Spelling: To Improve Spelling & Writing

From apostrophes to hyphens - an intermediate course to understand and master the tricky punctuation marks in spellings

What you'll learn
Improve and be more confident with your spelling and writing.
Use capital letters correctly, which makes your writing look more professional.
Use apostrophes for contractions and possession correctly.
Use memory tricks to help you remember 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.
Requirements
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.
Description
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 course is for anyone who needs 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.This is ideal for both American & British English users. 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.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction video

Lecture 2 Useful words to know video

Lecture 3 The importance of punctuating spelling video

Section 2: Using Capital Letters

Lecture 4 Capital letters part 1 - video

Lecture 5 Capital letters part 2 - video

Lecture 6 Tricky capitals

Section 3: Abbreviations

Lecture 7 Introducing the 4 types of abbreviation video

Lecture 8 Abbreviations - shortenings video

Lecture 9 Abbreviations - contractions video

Lecture 10 Mr/Mrs or Mr./Mrs.

Lecture 11 Abbreviations - initialisms and acronyms video

Lecture 12 More common initialisms & revision video

Section 4: Using Apostrophes

Lecture 13 Introduction to the apostrophe section video

Lecture 14 Apostrophes for contractions video

Lecture 15 Apostrophes for contractions spelling test

Lecture 16 Apostrophes & homophones video

Lecture 17 they're, there, their spelling test

Lecture 18 you're or your spelling test

Lecture 19 it's or its spelling test

Lecture 20 we're or were

Lecture 21 Contractions & homophones with 'd

Lecture 22 Contractions with 'will'

Lecture 23 who's or whose

Lecture 24 Apostrophes for possession video

Lecture 25 Apostrophes revision video

Lecture 26 Apostrophes & indefinite pronouns video

Lecture 27 until vs. till

Section 5: Building Words with Hyphens

Lecture 28 Introducing hyphens & compound words video

Lecture 29 Hyphens: numbers & compound adjectives video

Lecture 30 Hyphens and adjectives video

Lecture 31 Hyphens and prefixes video

Lecture 32 Useful, fun hyphenated words video

Section 6: Punctuating & writing numbers, dates, & times

Lecture 33 Punctuating & writing numbers video

Lecture 34 Writing ordinal numbers video

Lecture 35 Punctuating time video

Lecture 36 Punctuating & writing dates video

English speakers who need help with their spelling and punctuation.