LEL 1: Grammar Skills 2: Fine-Tuning Your Punctuation

1. Interest level

Ponctuation is usually something that people who learn English as a second language take for granted. In fact, English punctuation is very different from French punctuation; thus, this course really caught my attention. It was very interesting because it taught rules from the English language that I did not know about.

2. Difficulty level

I would not say that the course was difficult. As long as the instructions were carefully followed, and that a lot of attention was put, the course's exercises were fairly clear. Furthermore, when mistakes were made, it was easy to go back to look at what was misunderstood. The only thing that I really found difficult was to assimilate all the rules together. There were many exceptions; sometimes, it confused me a little bit.

3. What I learned

- I learned about the use of hyphens. For example, there is a big difference when an adjective made of two words is used. If it is placed before the noun, a hyphen will be needed between the two wordsl; however, if it is placed after, the two words will not be joined by a hyphen.

- As opposed to French grammar, dashes are used like parentheses would. They are used to insert a comment in the sentence that helps to understand the meaning of it.

- When we quote someone inside an other quotation, we need to use double quotation marks for the first quotation, and single quotation marks for the second one.

4. My score

I did not get a score for the course; however, after each exercise, they showed what mistakes were done. In most cases, I did around two to no mistakes.

5.Course Rating: 9/10

The course was very complete; it explained in detail what were the grammar rules. Also, it was well divided into different parts. The only problem that I found was that the course could have been a bit more visual; I am a very visual person and charts really help me to grab concepts.