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What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Aren't Grade: K - 12 The grammar lesson explains why you should think of a verb as something with a subject, rather than as an 'action word'. 4:20 |
Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs Grade: K - 12 The grammar lesson provides a quick review of modals and auxiliaries, and shows you how many words long a verb can be. 3:15 |
What Adjectives Are Grade: K - 12 Learn about adjectives, those words that modify nouns. 2:10 |
The Adverb, and How Adverbs Are Used Grade: K - 12 In this lesson, learn how adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. 2:55 |
The Preposition and Prepositional Phrase Grade: K - 12 Learn about prepositions. The lesson explains why 'The squirrel ran _____ the trees' does not let you identify every preposition. 5:25 |
Transitive Verbs and Direct Objects Grade: K - 12 The grammar lesson explains transitive verbs. 4:20 |
Copulative Verbs and Subjective Complements Grade: K - 12 Learn about copulative (linking) verbs and subjective complements (sometimes called subject complements). 6:05 |
Past Participles and Present Participles Grade: K - 12 Grammar lesson on participles. 4:25 |
Participial Phrases and Participles as Adjectives Grade: K - 12 Learn about participial phrases. 4:35 |
Participial Phrases Set Off by Commas Grade: K - 12 The lesson explains the importance of participial phrases set off from the main clause by a comma or commas. 4:55 |
Gerunds and Gerund Phrases Grade: K - 12 The lesson answers questions about gerunds and gerund phrases. 5:15 |
Two Ways to Construe a Sentence Grade: K - 12 The lesson explains two ways of understanding the sentence 'Brian Boitano is skating.' 3:40 |
Infinitive Phrases Grade: K - 12 Learn about infinitive phrases (to run, to learn, to cook, etc.), which function as adjectives, adverbs, and nouns. 5:45 |
Subordinate Clauses Grade: K - 12 Learn about dependent clauses. They function as if they were nouns (nominal clauses), adverbs (subordinate clauses), or adjectives (relative clauses). 8:15 |
The Nominal Phrase Grade: K - 12 The grammar lesson talks about nominal phrases (noun phrases), and shows that phrases can contain clauses. 9:55 |
Indirect Objects and Objective Complements Grade: K - 12 Learn about the nature of the indirect object and the much less well known objective complement. 9:30 |
I? Me? He? Him? Pronoun Case Grade: K - 12 The lesson resolves the confusion surrounding case (the thing you wonder about when you're wavering between 'I' and 'me', 'we' or 'us', and so on). 9:15 |
Halt! Whom Goes There? - Pronoun Case, Continued Grade: K - 12 Choosing between 'who' and 'whom' is explained by this grammar lesson. 10:55 |
Coordinating Conjunctions and Comma Splices Grade: K - 12 A comma splice is the impermissible use of a comma between independent clauses not joined by a coordinating conjunction. 6:50 |
Punctuation Basics - Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Grade: K - 12 The lesson explains that commas are used to set off non-restrictive (sometimes called non-essential) elements. It also describes the serial comma. 7:15 |
More on Restrictive Elements and Punctuation Grade: K - 12 Learn about non-restrictive elements, which must be set off with commas, and restrictive elements, which must not be. 7:25 |
Appositives and Punctuation Grade: K - 12 The lesson explains what an appositive is, and then shows that non-restrictive appositives must be set off with commas. 8:05 |
The Truth about Apostrophes Grade: K - 12 Learn about use of apostrophes and why 'the Jones's house' is wrong and 'the Joneses' house' is right. 7:05 |
Active Voice and Passive Voice Grade: K - 12 Learn the simple and infallible method for determining whether a verb is in the active or in the passive voice, and how to make active verbs passive, and vice versa. 8:15 |
English Grammar - The Simple Past Tense #1 Grade: K - 12 A grammar lesson on simple past tense. 8:15 |
English Grammar - The Simple Past Tense #2 Grade: K - 12 6:05 |
English Grammar - The Simple Past Tense #3 Grade: K - 12 The lesson provides additional practice in forming the simple past tense with regular and irregular verbs. 10:55 |
English Grammar - The Simple Past Tense #4 Grade: K - 12 The lesson provides additional practice in forming questions and presents rules for pronouncing the '-ed' ending in regular verbs. 10:50 |
Prepositions - English Grammar #1 Grade: K - 12 Learn about prepositions of location and direction. 4:50 |
Prepositions - English Grammar #2 Grade: K - 12 10:10 |
Prepositions - English Grammar #3 Grade: K - 12 8:25 |