Punctuation and capitalisation
Here is a list of all of the skills that cover punctuation and capitalisation! These skills are organised by class, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Lower kindergarten skills
- B.7 Choose the lowercase letter that matches: easier letters
- B.8 Choose the lowercase letter that matches: harder letters
- B.9 Find all the lowercase letters
- B.10 Choose the uppercase letter that matches: easier letters
- B.11 Choose the uppercase letter that matches: harder letters
- B.12 Find all the uppercase letters
Class II skills
- B.12 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.13 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- I.3 Use pronoun-verb contractions
- I.4 Use contractions with "not"
- J.1 Capitalising the names of people and pets
- J.2 Capitalising days, months and holidays
- J.3 Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- J.4 Capitalising titles
- J.5 Greetings and closings of letters
Class III skills
- B.10 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.11 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- I.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
- I.2 Contractions with "not"
- J.1 Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words
- J.2 Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect
- J.3 Capitalising days, months and holidays
- J.4 Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- J.5 Greetings and closings of letters
- J.6 Capitalising titles
- J.7 Formatting titles
- J.8 Formatting and capitalising titles
Class IV skills
- B.11 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.12 Form the singular or plural possessive
- I.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
- I.2 Contractions with "not"
- J.1 Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words
- J.2 Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect
- J.3 Capitalising days, months and holidays
- J.4 Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
- J.5 Capitalising proper adjectives, nationalities and languages
- J.6 Greetings and closings of letters
- J.7 Capitalising titles
- J.8 Formatting titles
- J.9 Formatting and capitalising titles
Class V skills
- B.7 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.8 Form the singular or plural possessive
- H.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
- H.2 Contractions with "not"
- I.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words and interjections
- I.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- I.3 Correct capitalisation errors
- I.4 Capitalising titles
- I.5 Formatting titles
- I.6 Formatting and capitalising titles
Class VI skills
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- B.6 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.7 Form the singular or plural possessive
- H.1 Pronoun-verb contractions
- H.2 Contractions with "not"
- I.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- I.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
- I.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- I.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- I.5 Use dashes
- I.6 Correct capitalisation errors
- I.7 Capitalising titles
- I.8 Formatting titles
- I.9 Formatting and capitalising titles: review
Class VII skills
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- B.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.4 Form the singular or plural possessive
- F.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- F.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
- F.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- F.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- F.5 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
- F.6 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
- F.7 Use dashes
- F.8 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- F.9 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- F.10 Correct capitalisation errors
- F.11 Capitalising titles
- F.12 Formatting titles
- F.13 Formatting and capitalising titles: review
Class VIII skills
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- B.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- B.4 Form the singular or plural possessive
- B.6 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- F.1 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- F.2 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections and interrupters
- F.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- F.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- F.5 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
- F.6 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
- F.7 Use dashes
- F.8 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- F.9 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- F.10 Correct capitalisation errors
- F.11 Capitalising titles
- F.12 Formatting titles
- F.13 Formatting and capitalising titles: review
Class IX skills
- A.4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- B.3 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- B.4 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- F.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
- F.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- F.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- F.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- F.5 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
- F.6 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
- F.7 Semicolons, colons and commas review
- F.8 Use dashes
- F.9 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- F.10 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- F.11 Correct capitalisation errors
- F.12 Capitalising titles
- F.13 Formatting titles
- F.14 Formatting and capitalising titles: review
- M.7 Correct errors in everyday use
Class X skills
- A.4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- B.3 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- B.4 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- F.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
- F.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- F.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- F.4 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- F.5 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
- F.6 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
- F.7 Semicolons, colons and commas review
- F.8 Use dashes
- F.9 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- F.10 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- F.11 Correct capitalisation errors
- M.7 Correct errors in everyday use
Class XI skills
- A.3 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- E.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
- E.2 Commas with compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
- E.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- E.4 Commas: review
- E.5 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- E.6 Join sentences with semicolons, colons and commas
- E.7 Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations and appositives
- E.8 Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series
- E.9 Semicolons, colons and commas review
- E.10 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- E.11 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- E.12 Use dashes
- E.13 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- E.14 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- E.15 Correct capitalisation errors
- K.7 Correct errors in everyday use
Class XII skills
- A.3 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- E.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
- E.2 Commas with compound, complex and compound-complex sentences
- E.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- E.4 Commas: review
- E.5 Commas with non-restrictive elements
- E.6 Join sentences with semicolons, colons and commas
- E.7 Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations and appositives
- E.8 Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series
- E.9 Semicolons, colons and commas review
- E.10 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- E.11 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
- E.12 Use dashes
- E.13 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- E.14 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- E.15 Correct capitalisation errors
- K.7 Correct errors in everyday use