Episode 45 - How To Improve Your English Writing - Punctuation - Full Stops

This week we're talking about punctuation. We'll cover full stops (or periods, as the American's call them) today, commas tomorrow and brackets or parentheses on Thursday.If you would like to take part in the quiz, look below and take a look at today's version of the writing. It has no punctuation at all! Listen to today's podcast and decide, where do you think the full stops go? Can you figure out where the other punctuation should go to? Today I'll also talk about how we can vary our writing style depending on what we're writing: we usually use much shorter sentences for webpages, for example, compared to the much longer sentences of novels. In this review you can find:.,!()-- and ;You can head to Grammarly to find out more about the Comma and the Full Stop (or 'period' as they call it in America.) also the exclamation point (or mark) and the semi-colon. Review epic this show is gripping from start to finish there are new twists and turns the main bad guy is really super bad and so good at it and the main lead is spectacular she is flawed she has regrets and she is bad but she is so strong she gathers skills knowledge she gets smarter with each knock she takes and despite all the people mostly men who are trying to put her in her place use her mislead her and frame her she wins surrounding her are a delightful cast of delightful misfits enthusiastic first year law students who are about to get a better education than they ever bargained for and three convicted men who banded together and built a little restaurant empire despite their rocky start the male lead has an incredibly engaging background filled with secrets and mystery and he is hopelessly devoted to the attorney who believed in him he trusts her entirely he trusts himself entirely too and he believes in them both his strength honesty pure heart and intelligence cause our female lead to start looking at her life differently to start wanting to be better when she gets angry she gets strong and she’s a delight to watch you’ll start rooting for her and she won’t disappoint the plot leaves no holes and is tight and clever as the story builds the level of corruption escalates and the games get more dangerous and risky it’s an edge of your seat drama you’ll have trouble putting it down don’t expect to leave your house until it’s done it’s really that good enjoy From the review: Twists and turns - we can use this to describe a story that is unpredictable and doesn't proceed in a straight or predictable way. Each knock she takes - we think of a 'knock' as a hit, punch or fall, we often use the idiom 'a knock someone takes' meaning something hard that has happened to them that they have to overcome Frame her - if we 'frame someone' it means we make it look like they committed a crime when they didn't do anything wrong. 'More than they bargained for' - idiom - if someone 'gets more than they bargained for' then it usually means they are getting more than expected, it could be good, or bad. In this case it's both, they get a huge amount of experience and a very exciting life, but they are also regularly in danger and also in danger of losing their future careers! Banded together - idiom - if we 'band together' then it means we form a group and work together to succeed or do something. We often use this to describe unlikely groups or groups that might have trouble finding support (in this case three criminals who have served their time and are now out of prison looking for a new life). Rooting for her - if we 'root for someone' then it means we are hoping they will succeed or win. We often use it when people have less chance of success and we want to support them: 'We're rooting for you'. We are not actually doing anything! Just supporting from the sidelines.