13 Basic Punctuation Rules in English | Essential Writing Essential Series & Punctuation Guide

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This lesson is a brief summary of the most important punctuation rules and is perfect if you don't have time to watch all of my other videos before your test or exam! We will cover capitalization, periods, commas, apostrophes, plurals, colons, semicolons, hyphens, and more in this brief video!

At the end of this English lesson, we will have a practice session where you need to correct the punctuation of each sentence.

For more practice, watch my follow-up video with a 25 question quiz on these basic punctuation rules: https://youtu.be/pnROvjJlgi4

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Period
01:17 - Capitalize First Word
02:10 - Capitalize Proper Nouns
03:36 - Apostrophes and Plural Nouns
04:12 - Apostrophes and Contractions/Possessive Nouns
05:31 - Question Marks
06:01 - Exclamation Marks
07:15 - Commas in a List
08:25 - Commas and FANBOYS
09:49 - Semicolons
11:05 - Colons
11:47 - Hyphens and Compound Adjectives
12:40 - Hyphens and Compound Numbers

Here is a list of my full English Writing Essentials series below:
My English Writing Essentials Series:
► Quotation Marks Rules - https://youtu.be/F_yYYoqkZl8​​
► Apostrophe Rules - https://youtu.be/gZ2SNzHON4E​​
► Capitalization Rules - https://youtu.be/KdJL9qJ8t0A​​
► Colon Rules - https://youtu.be/p40K494L7VQ​​
► Semicolon Rules - https://youtu.be/Rr2UeP-rPVs​​
► Period Rules - https://youtu.be/GVdiQEtbrE8​​
► Exclamation Mark Rules - https://youtu.be/z3Re_ygaErc
► How to Use the Serial Comma (Oxford Comma) - https://youtu.be/cVhMUT5boF4​
► 8 Comma Rules - https://youtu.be/tLlfuIAjaC0​​

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