Learner punctuates continuous unmarked text, deciding boundaries without being told where they are.
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The technique, the four decisions, and why this chapter is cheap marks.
Read the sentence in your head at speaking speed.
Where you would pause, a mark probably belongs.
Where you would stop, a full stop belongs.
It takes thirty seconds and finds most of it.
Four repairs. Decide first, then mark.
1. the evidence is weak many people still believe it
Where does the first sentence end? After . The fault is a . Repaired:
2. However the figures tell a different story.
Is there an opener before the subject? So it needs after it. Repaired:
3. Because the funding stopped.
Can this stand alone? The fault is a . Repaired:
4. The company lost it's biggest market.
Does it's expand to it is here? So the apostrophe is . Repaired:
Everything stripped out. Put it all back.
many governments now fund public transport directly however the money has to come from somewhere in 2019 the city of paris tried a partial scheme fares fell on weekends only the results were mixed although usage rose the revenue gap widened critics said the plan was half hearted supporters pointed to the air quality figures because the trial ran for only six months nobody could be certain the citys transport board has since asked for a longer study
The mirror task. Take marks out.
Remote work has changed how companies hire. (1) Employers, must now compete for staff who live anywhere. (2) The best candidate's are no longer in one city. (3) Some firms have closed their offices entirely. (4) Because the rent was high. And the desks sat empty. (5) Others kept a small space, for meetings only. (6) The savings, however, are real. (7) In the 1990's this would have been unthinkable. (8) Nobody, expected the change to arrive so fast.
Four sentences, reported fault by fault.
Prompt: should students be required to learn a second language at school?
Write four sentences.
When you have finished, read them aloud before you send them.
One paragraph or four lines.
Read them aloud. Did you pause anywhere unmarked?