TED-Ed
How Misused Modifiers Can Hurt Your Writing
Misplaced modifiers are a common grammar error, but can your learners identify when a modifier can interfere with a reader's understanding? Watch a short and entertaining video from Ted Ed that illustrates misplaced modifiers, as well as...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture
Got milk? Only two cultures have had it long enough to develop the tolerance of lactose as an adult. Learn how the responsible genes evolved along with the cultures that have been consuming milk. This rich film is supplied with a few...
PBS
Career Connections | Advertising Director
Being an advertising director requires more than the ability to craft ads for products and services. The president of an advertising, design, and marketing agency details what he believes are the skills essential to becoming an...
Flocabulary
What Are Pronouns?
Once upon a time, SchoolHouse Rock used Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla to teach a lesson pronouns. Featuring an updated song, the third of four videos in a Language Arts playlist, uses a catchy hip-hop tune to teach about pronoun-antecedent...
TED-Ed
How Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?
You don't need a time machine to travel through time—you just need the English language! Explore the 12 possible ways to describe something that happened, something that is still happening, or something that will happen with an engaging...
GoEnglish
Present Continuous Uses
Grammar is one of those skills you're always improving. Learn more about ways to use the present continuous verb tense with a short grammar video and explanatory examples.
Ereading Worksheets
Verbals: Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles | Parts of Speech App
Learn about the three verbals—gerunds, infinitives, and participles—by finding out what they are and how to identify them, with an informative and engaging video. Additionally, obtain warnings and helpful tips to avoid making simple...
Learning Upgrade
Titles Punctuation Song
It's hard to remember how to punctuate titles correctly, but after you listen to this grammar video a few times, you'll never italicize a song title again! Hip hop-themed and catchy, the song is a great addition to your punctuation unit.
Learning Upgrade
Rhyming Word Building Song
All you need is a word ending to find a rhyme. In a video that focuses on rhyming words, a dog provides bricks to a wall for mice to add the beginning sounds.
Learning Upgrade
Sentence 1 Song
Yeehaw! Review the basic structure of a sentence with a fun Western song. The video explains that a sentence must start with a capital letter, end with a punctuation mark, and contain words to convey an idea.
Learning Upgrade
Pronouns 1 Song
Introduce your language arts class to their new favorite song with a video about pronouns. Hip, informative, and very catchy, the song demonstrates several different ways to replace nouns with pronouns.
Learning Upgrade
Interjections 5 Song
Wow! Your class will be humming along during a fun grammar video focused on interjections. It demonstrates the positions interjections can take in a sentence, as well as the different emotions they can convey in writing.
Learn English with Rebecca
Tenses Overview - Present, Past, Future, Simple, Continuous, Progressive, Perfect!
Clarify the difference between different verb tenses with a short, informative language arts video. The instructor guides learners through past, present, and future simple tenses; as well as the perfect, progressive, and perfect...
Jen Johnson
Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, & Fragments
When is a clause a complete sentence, and when do you need to add a subordinate conjunction? Practice complex sentences and avoid fragments with a grammar video. With fun pictures and interesting graphics, the video will get through to...
senseipalmer
Independent vs. Dependent
Clarify the difference between independent and dependent causes with a video lecture. At just under five minutes long, it's a great tool for your grammar unit.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 12: The Appositive
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has an appositive phrase.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Participial Phrases: Part I
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to edit error in sentences that have participial phrases. [8:53]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 3: Prepositional Phrases Again: Grammar
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has prepositional phrases.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 6: Gerunds and the Gerund Phrase
This video lesson [5:45] explains how to diagram a sentence that has a gerund or a gerund phrase.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Participial Phrases and Participles as Adjectives: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the topic of participial phrases and participles as adjectives. [4:34]
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Grammar. What Adjectives Are: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains what adjectives are and how to correctly use them in sentences.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 13: Participial Phrases and Standalone Participles
There seems to be quite a bit of confusion about when to add, and when not to add commas when working with independent and subordinate clauses. Learn about the rules in this video lesson. [4:38]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Parsing a Sentence: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to analyze the different words' functions within a complex sentence.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Gerunds and Gerund Phrases: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains what gerunds are. He also explains how gerunds function in a sentence. [5:16]