Description
The overall picture in business, math, football, life, and English
- Seven parts of speech,
- Tense is the Latin word for time,
- Prepositions explained in 30 seconds,
- A sentence with 16 prepositional phrases,
- Adjectives,
- Three kinds of adjectival errors,
- Four uses of italics,
- Simplifying the 12 tenses,
- Positive, comparative, and superlative forms of adjectives,
- Proper nouns used as adjectives,
- Suffix,
- Using the present tense to indicate things that are always true,
- Direct and indirect objects,
- Often the least effective way to teach is to lecture,
- Nominative, objective, and possessive cases,
- Simile,
- Schwa,
- Auxiliary verbs,
- Elliptical construction,
- Formal, informal, nonstandard, and general English,
- Two ways our brains work,
- The four emotions (glad, sad, mad, and afraid),
- Counter words,
- The three reasons to write,
- Adverbs,
- The three parts of mothering,
- The seven rules for when to double the final consonant when adding the suffix –ed (and simplified down to one rule),
- Intersection of sets,
- Less vs. fewer,
- Infinitive form of a verb as subject, object, adjective, and adverb,
- Holloware, flatware, and how to set a table,
- Prepositions at the end of sentences,
- Euphemisms and minced oaths,
- Subjunctive, imperative, and indicative moods,
- Antecedents of pronouns,
- Nauseous vs. nauseated,
- Stream of consciousness writing,
- Hyphens can change meaning,
- When to hyphenate compound adjectives (the six rules).