Description
The fourth book in this High school Language Arts series.
- Why kids don’t go to jail,
- Brackets, parentheses, and braces,
- Three ways to make a break in a sentence (commas, parentheses and dashes),
- How to type an em dash on a computer,
- Which words ending in –nger are pronounced with a hard g,
- Use of [sic],
- Where to put the question mark(s) in Did he ask, “What time is it”,
- What to use instead of parentheses inside of parentheses,
- Twenty-six research doctorates and two professional degree doctorates,
- Ruminants and why horses are unlucky,
- Three uses of a dash,
- When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash,
- What not to say to little children,
- Metaphors,
- The only time a period can touch a dash,
- When acronyms lose their periods or their capitalization,
- Analogy,
- Emphatic form of a verb,
- Compound subjects, Compound verbs, Simple, compound, and complex sentences,
- Coordinating and correlative conjunctions,
- When to express numbers as words or as numerals,
- Conjunctive adverbs,
- Figurative language (comparison, degree, and association),
- Two rules for making outlines,
- Parallel construction,
- Synecdoche,
- The difference between metaphor and metonymy,
- Allusions in writing,
- Good spelling implies high IQ,
- Inverse, converse, and contrapositive,
- Logical equivalence,
- The four times to use the passive voice,
- How to pronounce viz. e.g. and i.e.,
- Three keys to good writing,
- Unnecessary prepositions,
- How to write an essay,
- Plagiarism,
- Etymology,
- Two times you can use sentence fragments,
- Three uses of the slash mark (/),
- Why we capitalize the pronoun I,
- Ellipsis.