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Sentences
Learn - Kind of sentences
1.1 - Kind of sentences
Learn - Fragment and run-on sentence
1.2 - Identify sentence fragments
1.3 - Identify run-on sentences
1.4 - Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
Learn - Types of sentences
1.5 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
1.6 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
Type of sentences
Kind of sentences
Fragment and run-on sentences
Fixing fragments and run-ons
Pronouns
Learn - Pronouns
2.1 - Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
2.2 - Subject and object pronouns review
2.3 - Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who' (I)
2.4 - Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who' (II)
2.5 - Use relative pronouns: who and whom
2.6 - Identify vague pronoun references
2.7 - Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
2.8 - Pronouns I
2.9 - Pronouns II
Relative pronouns
Subject and object pronouns
Vague pronoun references
Parts of speech
Learn - Verbs, predicate adjectives, and nouns
3.1 - Form the progressive verb tenses
3.2 - Form the perfect verb tenses
3.3 - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
3.4 - Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
Progressive verb tense
Intransitive and intransitive verbs
Parts of speech
Perfect verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Learn - Adjectives and adverbs
4.1 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
4.2 - Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
4.3 - Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
4.4 - Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
4.5 - Adjectives or adverbs
4.6 - Correct form of adjectives and adverbs
Comparative adjectives
Superlative adjectives
Punctuation, capitalisation and formatting
Learn - Punctuation
5.1 - Formatting and capitalising titles: review
5.2 - Formatting titles
5.3 - Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
5.4 - Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
5.5 - Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
5.6 - Semicolons, colons and commas review
5.7 - Apostrophes
5.8 - Dashes
Apostrophe and dashes
Formatting and capitalizing titles
Ellipses, semicolons, colons, and commas
Prefixes and suffixes
Learn - Affixation
6.1 - Word pattern analogies
6.2 - Word pattern sentences
6.3 - Words with pre-
6.4 - Words with re-
6.5 - Words with sub-
6.6 - Words with mis-
6.7 - Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
6.8 - Words with -ful
6.9 - Words with -less
6.10 - Affixation review
Affixation
Prefixes pre, re, sub, mis
Prefixes un, dis, in, im, non
Suffix ful, less, able, ible
Word pattern analogies and sentence completion
Etymologies and foreign expressions
Learn - Etymology
7.1 - Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
7.2 - Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
7.3 - Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
7.4 - Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
7.5 - Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
7.6 - Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
7.7 - Sort words using Greek and Latin roots
7.8 - Use correct foreign expression
Etymology (Greek and Latin roots)
Greek roots
Reference skills
Learn - Dictionary skills
8.1 - Use thesaurus entries
8.2 - Using a dictionary
8.3 - Alphabetic order
8.4 - Guide words
Guide words
Thesaurus entries
Alphabetic order
Dictionary usage
Word usage and Analogies
Learn - Word usage
9.1 - Connotation and denotation I
9.2 - Connotation and denotation II
9.3 - Use words accurately and precisely
9.4 - Analogies
9.5 - Analogies: challenge
9.6 - Replace words using a thesaurus
Analogies
Connotation and denotation
Replacing words using thesaurus
Using words accurately and precisely
Narrative point of view
Learn - Narrative point of view
10.1 - Identify the narrative point of view
Narrative point of view
Context clues
Learn - Context clues
11.1 - Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
11.2 - Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
11.3 - Use context to identify the meaning of a word
11.4 - Synonyms and antonyms
11.5 - Context clues
Synonyms
Antonyms
Context clues
Writing clear and concise sentences
Learn - How to write clearly and concisely
12.1 - Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
12.2 - Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
12.3 - Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
12.4 - Use parallel structure
12.5 - Are the modifiers used correctly?
12.6 - Identify parallel structure
Comparative adjectives
Correlative conjunctions
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Modifiers
Common errors
Learn - How to avoid common errors
13.1 - Use the correct frequently confused word
13.2 - Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
13.3 - Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
13.4 - Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
13.5 - Sentence correction I
13.6 - Sentence correction II
Frequently confused words
Frequently confused pronouns and contractions
Commonly misspelled words
Phrases and clauses
Learn - Phrases and clauses
14.1 - Is it a phrase or a clause?
14.2 - Prepositional phrases
14.3 - Relative clause
Clauses
Phrases
Prepositional phrase
Relative clause
Active/passive and subject-verb agreement
Learn - Subject verb agreement and active/passive
15.1 - Identify passive voice
15.2 - Rewrite the sentence in active voice
15.3 - Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
15.4 - Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
15.5 - Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
15.6 - Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Active and passive voice
Subject-verb and indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
Verb agreement with compound subjects and verbs
Figure of speech
Learn - Figure of speech
16.1 - Use personification
16.2 - Interpret the meaning of allusions
16.3 - Interpret figures of speech
16.4 - Classify figures of speech: review
16.5 - Identify the source of allusions
16.6 - Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
