Hello everybody welcome back to my channel Jennifer Marie vo
where I teach you different ways that you can make money online
working from home. If you are one of my subscribers, you know
that I like to teach you about different transcription jobs
available and also provide you with a ton of different tips on
how to transcribe if you are one of my subscribers, you'll see I
have a list on my channel of transcription job for beginners,
tips on how to improve your transcription, English and
writing skills, tools and tricks to transcribe faster and get
more jobs. And also if you go to my sparkle English channel, you
can see I have all sorts of different videos teaching you
about how to use quotation marks, apostrophes commas, and
the difference between all sorts of commonly confused words in
English. So I recently did a video on transcribe me
punctuation guide, part one where I talked about commas,
conjunctions, plurals, sentence construction and more. And this
is going to be part two of that video. So this guide will focus
on what transcribe me wants you to do when you are transcribing,
and how to use proper punctuation as they want you to
do it when you are transcribing these files. This will help you
not only when you are a transcriber for transcribe me
but also help you pass the test. In this video, we'll review five
different grammar and punctuation topics that you need
to follow to become a transcriptionist for transcribe
me. We're going to talk about hyphens, colons, semi colons,
quotation marks, and ellipses. And if you don't know what any
of these are, you will find out and learn in this video. So the
first one we're going to talk about are hyphens and these are
hyphens right here. We use hyphens to form compound words
and to link prefixes to other words, it's important to
correctly identify compound words, because the meaning of
the sentence may drastically change otherwise. So this right
here is a hyphen. Okay. Let's look at this example. I saw a
man eating alligator. I saw a man eating alligator. What do
you think the difference is between these two sentences
because they are very different. The first one, a man eating
Alligator, we have a hyphen here to combine these words. Because
what this would mean is a man eating alligator would be an
alligator that eats men. And this is Combined, these two
words are combined to make an adjective man eating Alligator,
describing the alligator that it likes to eat men. If you say I
saw a man eating Alligator, that would mean that you saw a man
eating alligator meat or eating an alligator. Okay? Now, you
will not encounter a ton of different compound words, but
there are many of them. So it is important to know. So these two
sentences have different meanings based on using or not
using a hyphen. Okay? In compound words, the hyphen shows
that the words have a combined meaning when they are linked
together. So combining man eating means that if you said a
man eating dinosaur, a man eating dog, you would be calling
that dog or that dinosaur saying they're a meat eater, okay thing
that they like to eat men. Okay, the main type of compound word
that you will deal with in transcription files that needs
to be hyphenated is the compound adjective. A compound adjective
is when multiple words joined together to make an adjective.
So just like we said before, man eating alligator that would be a
compound adjective. These are usually hyphenated only when
they come right before a noun. Okay, so I'm going to show you
all of these different examples. And the word that comes after
the compound adjective is a noun. So for example, I am on a
sugar free diet. Diet is a noun. So this here is a compound
adjective sugar free. It is an old fashioned home. He is a high
spirited child, we were in a long lasting relationship. So
all of these are compound adjectives because when you mix
them together, they make an adjective, okay? If you are ever
confused about whether or not something is a compound
adjective, then just type it in Google, for example, type in
common compound adjectives. Or type in the word two words that
you're confused about.
Okay.
The next one we're going to talk about are colons. The colon and
the semi colon are commonly used in written works essays and
informal writing. However, they should not be overused in
transcripts. So you will see colons and semi colons all the
time when you're reading an article or reading a novel. But
in transcription files, we try to limit the usage. So use them
as sparingly as possible. We will only use colons and semi
colons in transcribe me. In these situations, use a colon
only when you have a complete sentence that introduces a list.
This is the only time and transcribe me they want you to
use a colon The only time when you have a complete sentence
that introduces a list. So let's look at these three examples.
JACK needs a lot of new office supplies, kolon, notebooks,
ballpoint pens, and pencils. The professor specializes in three
subjects, art, language, and history. He was going to buy
three things, coffee, milk, and eggs. So all of these are
complete sentences. And they're introducing this list right
here. If this sentence said he was going to buy coffee, milk
and eggs, you wouldn't need to put a colon because it wouldn't
be a full sentence introducing a list. But this is he was going
to buy three things. Coffee, milk and eggs. This right here
is a full sentence. And so we'll use a colon to start introducing
this list. Okay. Now on to semi colons. Use a semi colon to join
two closely related sentences without a conjunction. Never use
a comma splice, okay, so a lot of people will use a comma
splice and a comma splice is when you use a comma to connect
two sentences instead of a conjunction or a semi colon. So
for example, you could not write this rock music is okay, punk
music is better. Normally, you would use a conjunction like but
rock music is okay. But punk music is better. However, in a
transcription file, you have to transcribe what they are saying.
So if they do not use a conjunction, like but or and, or
then you have to use a semicolon to connect the two sentences if
they are closely related. So for example, rock music is okay semi
colon punk music is better. Because these are two
independent complete sentences that are closely related. What
we can do is add a semicolon to connect the two sentences. Now
pay attention here we do not capitalize the first letter of
the first word in the second half of this complete sentence
here. Okay, we have a capital for the first for rock because
that's at the beginning of the sentence. But because this we're
connecting it to this sentence, we do not need to use a capital
here, unless of course, it was a name, or cut name of a country
or a proper noun, where you would always use a capital
letter. Okay. Here are some more examples. I ordered fish. My dad
ordered pizza, again, semi colon and lowercase letter here. My
puppy is adorable. He loves to cuddle. Lauren opens the desk
drawer, it was empty. Okay, so all of these we are using a
semicolon to connect two closely related sentences. Okay, now
quotation marks. First of all, we will use quotation marks for
direct and hypothetical speech. Now with transcribe me, they
follow the American style usage of quotation marks. And in the
American style, quotations should be set off by a comma,
and punctuation should go inside of the quotation marks. If
you're transcribing for a British company, or something
like that, one that uses British rules, the quotation would go
inside, and the punctuation mark would go on the outside. But for
this, the punctuation has to go inside of the quote, quotation
marks. Okay. So examples. So then he asked me, comma,
quotation, capital letter. Do you want to go away for the
weekend? Question mark, because it's a question and we close it
with the quote marks. Another example, I spoke to my boss and
she was like, comma,
quotation, capital letter. Listen, I don't think you're
right for this job, period, and quotation mark at the end. So
always run Remember, you're going to have the quotation mark
at the end of the sentence and at the end of the punctuation.
You can also use quotation marks for spoken punctuation. example,
if a speaker says quote, or quote, unquote, what this means,
and this, you're not likely to encounter many files like this,
I never have before in my life. But if you're transcribing an
audio file, and someone actually says the word, quote, or
unquote, then you would add that as a quote, instead of typing
out quote. So for example, if you listen to an audio and they
said this, I had a meeting with Javier and he said, quote, I
promise I'm getting the promotion this quarter, you
would transcribe this as I had a meeting with Javier and he said,
comma,
quote, I promise I'm getting the promotion this quarter period,
quotes, okay, so you would not type quote, you would instead
put a quote, and of course, always setting off the quotation
by a comma. And finally, we're going to talk about when you use
ellipses, so as before with colons and semi colons, we try
to avoid ellipses when possible. So a lot of people are using
ellipses all the time. And I think this is one of the main
reasons why people fail the transcription exam, because they
are using ellipses when they hear a pause, and you're not
supposed to do that. So important, do not use ellipses
in the middle of a sentence to demonstrate that the speaker has
paused. I put that twice here. I'm sorry. So no. Will you marry
me? So if you hear a long pause here, do not put.dot.it doesn't
matter how long the pause is, because eventually they do
finish the sentence. So you don't say, will you? dot dot,
dot, marry me, you would just type? Will you marry me? Even if
the speaker paused for like 30 seconds, it doesn't matter?
Because eventually they finished the sentence. So you have to
type it as a full sentence, will you marry me? The only time we
use ellipses is to mark an incomplete sentence sentence. So
a sentence that never finished, followed by at least three
seconds of silence. So if this here was, will you and there are
three seconds of silence passed, then you could put Will you dot
dot dot question mark, but only if the sentence is not complete,
and never completed. So here's an example. Imagine this is a
conversation between two people on the telephone. I think I'll
be there on. Well, I hope I'll arrive then you're arriving on.
Sorry, I'll be in New York on Tuesday morning. So here, we
would only put dot, dot dot. Because these sentences are
incomplete. They never actually finish the sentence. And it was
followed by at least three seconds of silence. So 123.
Okay. Now, if the silence is shorter than three seconds, then
please mark the change of thought with dashes instead. And
we'll use double dashes. So I think I'll be there on Well, I
hope I'll arrive then you're arriving on sorry. I'll be in
New York on Tuesday morning. Okay, so if the silence is
shorter than three seconds, for an incomplete sentence, we will
use double to double dashes. And also, I want you to look at the
difference here. With the double dashes, we would have a
lowercase letter, almost as if this is one sentence. However,
if it's an incomplete sentence, and at least three seconds of
silence has followed, then you will have a capital letter to
start a new sentence. Okay, so just sort of look and study the
difference between these two. And I recommend you bookmark
this video or write notes in your notepad. So you remember
the rules for this because you will encounter this sort of
situation a lot, not only in the test, but also when you are
transcribing for transcribe me. And this is a very important
rule that they have on how to use ellipses. So thank you very
much for tuning in to watch my video on punctuation for
transcribe me. Make sure to Check out part one of my
transcribe me punctuation guide where I review run on sentences,
sentence fragments, commas and conjunctions, plurals, and
possessives. Eventually, I will do an advanced punctuation guide
because there are some even more advanced rules for situations
you won't always encounter that you might encounter for
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