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Activities: “Top 10 trickiest punctuation rules for English learners”

By: Erin Kuester
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These activities are part of our Grammar series. The skills we are practicing here are covered in our article:

Activity 1: Check the apostrophes

Louis is not very good at using apostrophes. Check the following sentences from his English homework. In some sentences he is missing an apostrophe, in others an apostrophe is missing!

(Type directly in the box to fix the errors. If the sentence is already correct, you don't need to do anything!)

Activity 2: Check the commas

Louis also makes mistakes with commas. Check these sentences for extra commas or missing commas.

Hint
Use the "Oxford comma"!

(Type directly in the box to fix the errors. If the sentence is already correct, you don't need to do anything!)

Activity 3: Which to add?

Each sentence below requires at least one comma (,), semicolon (;), colon (:), or em dash (—). Read each sentence carefully, then correct it in the space provided.

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