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Capitals & Punctuation
French capitals, spaces before ! and ?, quotation marks, apostrophes and hyphens.
French punctuation has its own rules, and they are visible in every text you write. Learn where French uses capitals (fewer than English), the spaces before double punctuation in France and Québec, French quotation marks, decimal commas, elision and the hyphen in questions and numbers.
Lessons
- 1
Capital letters: fewer than in English
French uses fewer capitals than English: no capital for days, months, languages or nationality adjectives.
- 2
French punctuation and spaces
Use French quotation marks and spaces before : ; ! ? and write numbers the French way.
- 3
The apostrophe and the hyphen
Know when to elide (l’, j’, qu’) and when to use a hyphen (questions, numbers, compound words).
Final assessment
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. Score 70% or more to earn your certificate.
What you will be able to do
- 01Use capitals the French way
- 02Punctuate with the right spaces
- 03Write numbers and amounts
- 04Use the apostrophe and the hyphen
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