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The sentence
Parts of speech
- Parts of speech
- Clauses
- Independent clauses
- Run on sentences
- Subordination
- Dependent clauses or subordinate clauses
- Noun dependent clauses
- Adjective dependent clauses
- Adverb dependent clauses
- Elliptical clauses
- Predicates
- Complete predicates
- Compound predicates
- Predicate adjectives
- Essential and nonessential clauses
- The noun
- Types of nouns
- Proper nouns
- Common nouns
- Plural nouns
- Concrete nouns
- Abstract nouns
- Collective nouns
- Possessive nouns
- Singular possessive nouns
- Plural possessive nouns
- Compounded nouns that are possessive
- Double possessives
- Pronouns
- Pronoun types
- Personal pronouns
- Possessive personal pronouns
- Questioning pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- Intensive pronouns
- Pronouns and antecedents
- Avoiding confusing antecedent and pronoun situations
- Consistent use of the pronoun it
- Pronouns - singular or plural
- The difference between who and whom
- Pronoun consistency
- First person
- Second person
- Third person
- All third person
- All first person
- All third person
- All second person
- Verbs
- Auxiliary verbs
- Compound verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Linking verbs and subject complements
- Object complements
- Verbals
- Infinitives
- Present participles
- Past participles
- Gerunds
- Verb contractions
- Forming the not form of a verb
- Verb tenses
- Present tenses
- Simple present tense
- Present progressive tense
- Present perfect tense
- Present perfect progressive tense
- Past tenses
- Simple past tense
- Past progressive tense
- Past perfect tense
- Past perfect progressive tense
- Future tenses
- Simple future tense
- Future progressive tense
- Future perfect tense
- Future perfect progressive tense
- Verb forms moods and voices
- The four basic verb forms
- The three verb moods
- Indicative mood
- Imperative mood
- Subjunctive mood
- The voice of a verb
- Active voice
- Passive voice
- How to write in the passive voice
- The fibbing lie
- Sit and set
- Adjectives
- Adding adverbs on top of an adjective
- Adjective types
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Possessive adjectives
- Questioning or interrogative adjectives
- Indefinite adjectives
- The degree of an adjective
- Comparative and superlative degree for multi-syllable adjectives
- Talking about quantities and amounts
- The opposite of an adjective
- Other ways to form the opposites of adjectives
- Difference between ed and ing at the end of an adjective
- Collective adjectives
- Ordering multiple adjectives correctly
- Articles determiners and quantifiers
- Articles
- Quantifiers
- Predeterminers
- Adverbs
- Adjunct
- Disjunct
- Conjunct
- Conjunctive adverbs
- Ordering multiple adverbs
- Using infinitive verbs to form adverbs
- Degrees of an adverb
- Where adverbs appear in a sentence
- Conjunctions and lists
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Lists in a sentence
- Lists connected by coordinating conjunctions
- Contrasting two things
- Starting a sentence with the conjunctions and or but
- Starting with because
- Using neither nor
- Correlative conjunctions
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Prepositions
- Prepositions of place or location
- Prepositions of time
- Prepositions of movement or direction
- Multi-purpose prepositions
- Ending sentences with prepositions
- Sentences ending in phrasal verbs
- Verbs nouns or adjectives plus prepositions
- Particles
- Interjections
- Types of sentences
- Classifying sentences by purpose
- Declarative sentences
- Exclamatory sentences
- Imperative sentences
- Interrogative sentences
- Interrogative sentences by tone
- Interrogative sentences by changing word order
- Classifying sentences by structure
- Simple sentences
- Compound sentences
- Complex sentences
- Compound-complex sentences
- Sentence basics
- Using the correct verb with a subject
- Pronouns - singular or plural two
- Compounded and non-compounded subjects
- Pairs of things
- Quantity describing expressions
- Expletive constructions
- Abbreviations
- I.e. versus e.g
- Mr and Mrs Smith
- Date and time abbreviations
- Name initials
- Abbreviations of units
- Avoiding sentence fragments
- When its OK to use sentence fragments
- Capitalisation
- Proper nouns
- The first word of any sentence
- Capitalisation of titles
- I gets capitalised
- Using italics
- To make something stand out
- Onomatopoeia
- Titles
- When you are talking about the word itself not using it for what it represents
- Names of vehicles
- Short sentences
- Joining parallel sentence subjects or objects
- Compounding parallel objects
- Compounding parallel subjects
- Linking two sentences together more closely
- The simple linking relationship
- The contrast relationship
- Intentionally subordinating a clause to another
- Connecting using an absolute phrase
- Connecting using appositive phrases
- Connecting using a participial phrase
- Using the correct sequence of tenses
- Writing numbers correctly
- Numbers of units
- Decimal and fractional numbers
- The number zero
- Approximate numbers
- Common phrases
- Starts of sentences
- Multiple numbers one after the other
- Writing lists
- Lists
- Bullet point lists
- Numbered lists
- Political correctness
- Avoid feminised nouns
- Avoid something-man nouns
- Avoid gender assumptive language
- Gender neutral pronouns
- Using gendered pronouns
- Using gender neutral pronouns
- Gender neutral names of people
- Using he she
- Racism homophobia religion sexism
- Political correctness gone too far
- Punctuation
- The period or full stop
- The comma
- Connecting clauses
- Lists in a sentence
- Separating lists of adjectives
- Parenthetical phrases
- Introductory phrases
- Quotation marks
- Using single quotation marks
- The exclamation mark or exclamation point
- The question mark
- The colon
- When to capitalise after a colon
- The semicolon
- The apostrophe
- Making words plural using apostrophes
- The hyphen
- Dividing words at the end of a line
- Using hyphens to create compound numbers
- Using hyphens to avoid confusion
- Using hyphens to join words together to form adjectival phrases
- Using hyphens with prefixes
- Using hyphens for position descriptions
- The em and en dash
- Parentheses
- Brackets
- The forward slash
- To indicate choice between multiple options
- For dates
- Fractions
- The ellipsis or dot dot dot
- Building your vocabulary
- Remembering words
- The difference between recognising and recalling
- Keeping a record and practicing
- Dont use words you re not sure about
- Commonly confused words
- Consistency in vocabulary
- Working out the meaning of words
- Meaning from context
- Meaning from word parts
- Meaning from roots
- Meaning from sounding out a word
- Writing well at the sentence level
- Combining short and long sentences
- Modifiers
- Adjectival modifiers
- Adjectival clause
- Adverbial modifiers
- Adverbial clause
- Types of phrases
- Participle phrase
- Prepositional phrase
- Absolute phrase
- Infinitive phrase
- Flowing from one sentence to the next
- Contrast
- Comparison
- Summarise
- Emphasise
- Addition
- Cause and effect – leading to a conclusion
- Examples
- Sense of time
- Sense of position or direction
- Sentence fragments
- Use of the dash
- How to write good paragraphs
- Stay on one topic
- Parts of a paragraph
- The paragraph introduction
- The topic sentence
- Transition sentence
- Background clarification sentences
- The paragraph body
- Examples
- Analysis
- Argumentative essays
- What to argue about
- Politics
- Society
- Science and technology
- Education
- Military
- Reading up on the topic
- Read all sides of the argument
- The annoyingly well informed person
- Sources of information
- The thesis sentence
- General structure of the argumentative essay
- Using suggestive language
- Analytical essays
- Depth of an analytical essay
- The structure of an analytical essay
- Hidden assumptions and arguments
- Contradictory arguments
- Expository essays
- Research your topic
- Ways to make your readers understand
- Examples
- Analogies
- Paraphrase
- The structure of an expository essay
- Objective versus subjective writing
- Completely objective
- Dont use the first person
- Write from a general persons perspective
- Superficially objective
- Presentation order
- Subjective writing
- Think about your audience
- Two types of audience
- Audience knowledge
- Laypeople
- Getting the message across to laypeople
- Analogies
- Managers
- Experts
- Hostile or friendly
- Unknown audiences
- What does the audience want
- Writing tone
- Levels of formality
- Varied audiences
- Casual language
- Formal language
- First or second person in formal language
- Replacing the first person in formal writing
- Concrete versus abstract things
- Concrete things
- Abstract things
- Quantitative versus qualitative
- Structuring an essay
- Use the outline to check if you re missing anything
- More detailed outlines
- Organising an outline chronologically
- Organising an outline for contrast and comparison
- General essay considerations
- The thesis statement
- Evolution of the thesis statement
- Using the thesis statement to work out if you re in over your head
- Placement of the thesis statement
- How to present the thesis statement
- The narrative essay
- Writing from your personal experiences
- To write the narrative from your perspective or someone elses
- Normal story conventions
- Writers block
- Make a bring topic interesting or personal
- Writers block from being overcritical
- Distance yourself from the writing and the audience
- Speak the paper instead of writing it
- Order doesnt matter
- Where to start
- Take a break
- Physical exercise
- Carry paper and pen around
- Book and movie reviews
- Background checks
- Reading the book
- Preparing for a movie book or play review
- Setting of the story itself
- Setting in which the story was written
- Setting of the audience
- Difference between mood and tone
- Theme
- Newspaper articles
- Preparing to write the article
- Choosing a topic
- Researching the article
- Writing the article
- Inverted pyramid
- Personal writing
- Autobiographical accounts
- Diary and journal entries
- Diaries from someone elses perspective
- Storyboarding
- What the storyboard is useful for
- Types of storyboards
- Conceptual storyboard
- Animatic storyboard
- TV storyboard
- Dramatic performance
- Research the whole play
- Memory
- Do the research
- Learn other characters lines
- Practice with props
- Voice
- Projection
- Control
- Positioning
- Levels
- Accents
- Movement
- Timing
- Talking about the play character or scene
- Writing a play script
- Experience a play
- KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid
- Plot
- Get right into it straightaway
- Characters
- Action
- Comedy
- Typical format
- Rewriting scripts
- Analysis of advertising
- Target audience
- Blue- and white-collar workers
- What is being advertised
- What is being emphasised
- Why is this emphasised
- Methods and appeals
- Fear
- Desire
- General desires and fears
- Language
- Pictures and images
- More complicated messages
- Oral assessment
- Informative presentations
- Persuasive speaking presentations
- Topic or issue for your oral
- Audience for your oral
- Environment for your oral
- Narrowing down your topic
- Researching the topic
- Setting up the orals structure
- Persuasive oral structure
- Statement and supporting evidence
- Pros and cons
- Problem and solution
- The Monroe motivated sequence
- Attention
- Need
- Satisfaction
- Visualisation
- Action
- Informative oral structure
- Chronological
- Topical breakdown
- Examples
- Choosing a delivery mode
- Rehearsing
- Number your palm cards
- Visual aids
- Presentation props
- Anticipate questions
- Practice runs
- Voice
- Volume
- Clarity
- Speed
- Pauses
- Inflection
- Umms Ahhs Errs Hmmms Y know Y get me
- Variety
- Swearing
- Nonverbal communication
- Eye contact
- Facial expressions
- Posture
- Hair
- Clothes
- Hands and arms
- Position
- Movement
- Poetry
- Poetry terms
- Rhyme
- Meter
- Assonance
- Blank verse
- Couplet
- Stanza
- Verse
- Triplet
- Stress accent
- Rhythm
- Refrain
- Periphrasis
- Onomatopoeia
- Foot
- Lyric
- Epithet
- Ellipsis
- Consonance
- Iambic pentameter
- What type of poem is it
- Limerick
- Sonnet
- Ballad
- Haiku
- Free verse
- Acrostic
- Elegy
- Epigram
- Didactic
- Narrative or epic
- Fable
- Palindrome
- Ode
- Analysing the poem
- Poem speaker
- Poem topic
- Poem tone
- Poem setting
- References to other literature
- Imagery
- Sound
- Language
- Poem purpose