For punctuation questions, we feel that it is important to bear the following in mind:
Commas – in modern usage there is a tendency to adopt a system of minimal punctuation and the comma is one of the casualties of this new attitude.
Most people use the comma considerably less frequently than was formerly the case.
There are rules, of course, but punctuation has evolved to become more subjective in recent years
Only last week we saw that editors of major newspapers and magazines have banned the use of the semi-colon because their copywriters don’t know how to use them appropriately!
After studying the official familiarisation material and the commercially available GL papers, our instinct is that the transfer test will concentrate primarily on the use of the following:
Correct use of the apostrophe; possessive or contraction.
Capital letters for proper nouns and the beginning of a new sentence.
Exclamation marks where a question mark should be used and vice versa.
Missing inverted commas or missing opening or closing inverted commas.
Missing full stops/question marks/exclamation marks at the end of sentences.
