Noun |
Lesson – 1 – Noun |
Lesson – 2 – Singular and Plural Noun |
Lesson – 3 – Irregular Plural Noun |
Lesson – 4 – Compound Noun |
Lesson – 5 – Collective Noun |
2. Pronoun
Lesson – 1 – Personal Pronoun | Lesson – 5 – Interrogative Pronoun |
Lesson – 2 – Cases of Personal Pronoun | Lesson – 6 – Demonstrative Pronoun |
Lesson – 3 – Pronoun | Lesson – 7 – Relative Pronoun |
Lesson – 4 – Reflexive Pronoun | Lesson – 8 – Indefinite Pronoun |
3. Verbs: Types, Tenses, and Moods
- Moods of Verbs
- The Verb To Be
- Active vs. Passive Voice
- Phrasal Verbs
- Transitive vs. Intransitive Verbs
- Shifts in Verb Tense
- Negative Statements
- Tenses of Verbs
- Irregular Verbs
- Principal Parts: Spelling Changes
- Principal Parts of Verbs
- Helping Verbs
- Action vs. Linking Verbs
- Linking Verbs
- Action Verbs
4. Verbs: Agreement and Challenges
- Agreement of VerbsBefore You Begin: What Is a Subject? Before you get started with this lesson, you’ll need […]
- Agreement: Subjects with And, Or, or NorAs you saw in Module 3, Lesson 1, a sentence is like a car, with a noun […]
- Agreement: Collective NounsCollective nouns name a group, so it can be difficult to tell whether to use a singular […]
- Agreement: Nouns that End in sSome nouns end in s even though they are considered singular. These include words such as mathematics, civics, measles, news, physics, mumps, and molasses. Physics is my […]
- Agreement: Titles of Creative WorksSometimes a publication or movie, or a work of literature, art, or music has a plural […]
- Agreement: Proper NounsDifferent types of proper nouns follow different agreement rules. Names of Companies and Organizations Organization and […]
- Agreement: Money, Time, and MeasurementsMoney, time, and measurements can be plural or singular. If the focus of your sentence is […]
- Fractions and PercentagesPercentages and fractions can be plural or singular. Just like in the last lesson, the verb […]
- Indefinite PronounsThis lesson will help you learn how to make indefinite pronouns and verbs agree. When people talk, they […]
- Hard to Find SubjectsQuestions and Emphatic Statements Sometimes the subject of a sentence can be hard to find. In a question, […]
- Challenging Verbs: Lie/LayLie: to lie (yourself) down. I lie down on my bed when I am tired. Lay: to lay something else […]
5. Sentence Parts
- Simple Subjects
- Simple Predicates
- Challenging Subjects
- Compound Subjects and Predicates
- Complete Subjects and Predicates
- Direct Objects
- Challenges with Direct Objects
- Subject Complements
- Object Complements
- Distinguishing Between Objects and Complements
- Classifying Verbs
6. Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs
- Adjectives
- Different Types of Adjectives
- Compound Adjectives
- Order of Adjectives
- Adverbs Modifying Verbs
- Adverbs Modifying Adjectives
- Adverbs Modifying Other Adverbs
- Special Types of Adverbs
- Adjective versus Adverb
- Comparing with Adjectives and Adverbs
- Challenging Comparisons
- Challenging Adjectives and Adverbs
- Common Mistakes and Dangling Modifiers
7. Prepositions
- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
- Compound Prepositions and Compound Objects
- Preposition versus Adverb
- Adjective Prepositional Phrases
- Adverb Prepositional Phrases
- Prepositional Phrases as Nouns
- Layered Prepositional Phrases
- Adjective or Adverb Prepositional Phrases
- Placement Problems and Dangling Prepositions
- Troublesome Prepositions
- Commas with Prepositional Phrases
- Idiomatic Verbs
8. Conjunctions and Interjections
- Coordinate Conjunctions
- Correlative Conjunctions
- Parallel Ideas
- Conjunctive Adverbs
- Subordinating Conjunctions
- Other Words that Act as Conjunctions
- As/As if Versus Like
- Interjections
9. Verbals and Phrases
- Verbals
- Participles and Participial Phrases
- Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Participial Phrases
- Misplaced Participial Phrases
- Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
- Classifying Verbals and Verbal Phrases
- Appositives and Appositive Phrases
- Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Appositives
- Absolute Phrases
10. Clauses
- What is a Clause?
- Adjective Clauses
- Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Adjective Clauses
- Adverb Clauses
- Noun Clauses
- Classifying Dependent Clauses
- Kinds of Sentences/Sentence Purposes
- Simple and Compound Sentences
- Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences
- Classifying Sentences
11. Capitalization
- Names of People
- Titles
- Names of Places
- Names of Groups of People
- Names of Things
- Names in School
- Names on the Calendar
- Firsts