How can you use colons and semicolons for top grades in writing?

MANY STUDENTS are looking for final improvements to develop their writing before their summer exams.

As a teacher of English over many years I learnt that students could learn how to use colons and semicolons quite quickly if they were presented in the right way.

As students get older, they naturally will write sentences that need these wonderful punctuation marks, but sadly the majority of students have not usually been taught them.

“Explain and expand”, and “connect or contrast” are some of the guidelines I offer, and you can read more in my ebook “A Dash of Punctuation” which is available here.

Using colons is not something to fear : they can seriously improve your writing.

Semicolons confuse some ; they liberate others!

Do you see how you can use these great punctuation marks?

You can find out more about how I help students develop their writing in my other ebooks: The Five Sentence Type Workbook here and But I'm No Good At Creative Writing! here.

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