Punctuation practice that explains itself.
Most lost marks aren’t big mistakes — they’re a missing apostrophe or a comma in the wrong place. Exam-style questions, an instant answer, and the reason behind it, every time.
The real exam format
A sentence is split into four groups of words. Your child finds the group with the mistake in capital letters or punctuation — or chooses N when there isn’t one.
Sometimes there’s no mistake
About a quarter of the questions are correct as written, so your child learns to trust a good sentence as well as spot a bad one.
The reason, every time
Every answer, right or wrong, shows the mistake corrected and a one-line explanation. That’s how a rule sticks, rather than just a score.
Practise what’s weak
Rounds start with new questions and the ones they got wrong. Drill one topic, take a mixed round, or retry only the mistakes.
The sentence below may contain a mistake in the use of capital letters or punctuation. Choose the group of words that contains the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘N’.
The correct answer is:
Correct!
Mistake in group B
it’s paws and → its paws and
Its, with no apostrophe, shows belonging. It’s always means “it is” or “it has”.
Your child’s progress
updates after every round- Questions solved
- 1,284
- Accuracy
- 82%
- To revisit
- 7
- Commas in sentences72% correct
- Apostrophes: belonging46% correct
- Speech marks25% correct
- Colons & semicolonsnot started
Every topic the papers test
Capital letters & sentence endings
Capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.
Commas in lists
Separating the items in a list.
Commas in sentences
After openers, around extra information, and when speaking to someone.
Apostrophes: missing letters
Short forms like don’t, they’re and we’ll.
Apostrophes: belonging
The dog’s bone, the girls’ coats — and its versus it’s.
Speech marks
Punctuating what people say, including split speech.
Colons & semicolons
Introducing lists and joining closely linked sentences.
Brackets, dashes & hyphens
Extra information, and joining words into one describing word.
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