PUNCTUATION

 

HANDOUTS, including information on the use of: 

  • commas (,)

  • semicolons (;)

  • colons (:)

  • hyphens (-)

  • apostrophes (')

  • quotation marks ("...")

EXERCISES

GIVE FEEDBACK ON THE PUNCTUATION UNIT

 

 

LINKS TO HANDOUTS:

QUICK GUIDE TO PUNCTUATION FOR FINNISH STUDENTS

ONLINE TECHNICAL WRITING: mostly punctuation matters
     (Online Technical Writing, David A. McMurrey: RECOMMENDED!)

PUNCTUATION (includes exercises)
     (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

PUNCTUATION GUIDE
    
(University of Ottawa)

PUNCTUATION
    
(Infoplease.com)

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EXERCISES:

TYPICAL PUNCTUATION PROBLEMS
     (try this one at the very least!)

COMMAS AFTER INTRODUCTORY PHRASES (PURDUE OWL)

A COMMA OR A SEMI-COLON (PURDUE OWL)

commas WITH NON-ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS 1 (PURDUE OWL)

commas WITH NON-ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS 2 (PURDUE OWL)

commas WITH NON-ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS 3 (PURDUE OWL)

USING COMMAS (PURDUE OWL)
     (see also links to further exercises)

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