Punctuation: capitals, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks and more

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By the end you’ll be able to

use capital letters correctly for sentence beginnings, proper nouns and other required cases in standard Australian English
apply full stops, question marks and exclamation marks appropriately to mark sentence endings
use commas accurately in common sentence patterns, including items in a list and where needed for clarity in clauses or phrases

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use quotation marks and accompanying punctuation correctly in direct speech or quoted material

recognise and correct punctuation errors involving colons, semicolons, brackets, dashes or ellipses where these are used in age-appropriate standard written texts

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