Grammar lectures
Tier 3: Remainder
8 lectures · reaches 100%
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Sign in to see more- R8Where a comma goes — and where nothing goesDecide a comma question by naming the comma's job: closing an opening phrase, wrapping an aside, or splitting a list — and leave every other gap empty.+6.1%p → 87.8%
- R9Where nothing goesLeave the gap empty when it sits between a subject and its verb, a verb and its object, a preposition and its object, or a title and a name.+5.3%p → 93.1%
- R10The marks around howeverPunctuate however, nonetheless, or as a result by checking what sits on each side: a clause, a phrase, or a list.+3.1%p → 96.2%
- R11Closing what is already openClose a parenthesis, a dash, or a semicolon list with its own kind, and put a colon only after a whole clause that asks for an explanation.+2.4%p → 98.6%
- R12Question, or holding a questionDecide whether the whole sentence is a question; the word order and the final mark both follow from that one answer.+0.5%p → 99.1%
- R13Which kind of pronounSettle the number first, then ask whether the pronoun points back at the subject of its own clause.+0.3%p → 99.4%
- R14Main verb, or a verbalCheck whether the clause already has its main verb; if it does, the blank takes a to-form or an -ing form, never a second main verb.+0.3%p → 99.7%
- R15When grammar allows twoLet grammar cut first; when more than one choice survives, pick the one that says what the passage means.+0.3%p → 100%