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Capitals, paragraphs and the register of punctuation

English · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

What must be capitalised, where a paragraph starts, and why a travel report should not look like a text message.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Hyphens, dashes and slashes
  2. Punctuating speech
  3. Apostrophes: possession and contraction
  4. Colons, semicolons and brackets
  5. Capitals, paragraphs and the register of punctuation