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...
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Aren't
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian clarifies the function of verbs.
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Grammar Lesson: Transitive Verbs and Direct Objects
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the role of a transitive verb and the role of the direct object that receives the action.
Yossarian the Grammarian
What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Aren't: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains what verbs are and are not.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the functions of modal verbs and auxiliary verbs.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 1: Verbs, Subjects, Adverbs: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has verbs, subjects, and adverbs.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This video lesson focuses on changing passive voice sentences into active voice. It begins by asking students to think of sentences as a parking lot with reserved spaces for parts. It shows active voice sentences as SVO order and passive...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice vs the Active Voice
This screencast focuses on voice including the difference between active and passive voice, why active voice is preferred, and when it is acceptable to use passive voice. Links to more resources are also provided. Real Player is required
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice: Lesson 2
The lesson discusses the passive voice. This lesson is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice." [3:53]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Active Voice and Passive Voice: English Grammar
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to distinguish between the active voice and the passive voice when writing sentences and paragraphs. He also shows how to edit errors that involve the active and passive...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
A screencast lesson defining active and passive voice, demonstrating how to construct a sentence in passive voice, and explaining when using passive voice is appropriate. [16:14]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
An animated video lesson followed by notes and additional examples demonstrating how to write in the passive voice and when it would be appropriate to do so. [5:09]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Strong Verbs
A video lesson defining a strong verb and explaining how to create strong verbs within a written text by changing passive voice to active voice, eliminating unnecessary qualifiers, and reducing phrases to a single word. [7:24]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Verbs
This lesson introduces verbs and their role in a sentence. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [7:10]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Verb Tenses
This lesson goes over the main English verb tenses. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [7:41]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Verbs in the Subjunctive Mood
Writers use verbs in the subjunctive mood to express imaginary or hoped-for conditions. Let's practice using verbs in the subjunctive mood. [8:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Present Tense
How do we talk about things that are happening right now?
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 2
A slideshow comparing passive active voice and discussing when each is appropriate. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 5
A video lesson explaining the difference between active and passive voice. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice." [5:16]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Grammar: Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs
This is a YouTube video lesson about modal and auxiliary verbs. Modals are verbs such as could, would, or might which cannot stand alone, and auxiliary verbs are verbs such as do, be, and have which can be helping verbs or can stand alone.