punctuation

"An apostrophe plus 's' forms the possessive case"

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "The apostrophe is in a different place."

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "The trend is towards shorter words."

In this classroom game, students work in groups to punctuate a text; but they have to buy the punctuation symbols first.

Dagmar Taylor writes: "If it weren't for punctuation, sentences could be quite misleading."

Is it a poo? Is it a whistle? No, it's a single quotation mark!

When you write something in English, it's easy to make a mistake — even when you're British. In fact, we British are always getting things wrong.