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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
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
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 14: The Expletive
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates what an expletive, a pronoun without an antecedent, is.
Yossarian the Grammarian
I? Me? He? Him? Pronoun Case: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to deternine the appropriate pronoun case in a sentence.
Yossarian the Grammarian
The Adverb, and How Adverbs Are Used: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the adverb and how adverbs are used.
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
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...
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Conjunction and Its Types
This video lesson features information about correlative conjunctions. Examples of correlative conjunctions are provided, and they are also contrasted with coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. [5:05]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conjunctions
This lesson focuses on conjunctions; there are four types of conjunctions: correlative, subordinate, coordinate, and conjunctive adverbs. It explains the uses for, provides a list of, gives examples of, and discusses punctuation for each...
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 Mood
This video lesson focuses on verb moods; there are three verb moods: indicative, imperative, and subjunctive. It explains each individually, discusses the verb types, articulates the tenses used for each mood, and provides examples of...
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: Grammatical Person and Pronouns
There's this idea in grammar called grammatical person that helps describe who's being talked about in a sentence. David, KA's Grammar Fellow, explains.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
An antecedent is "the thing that came before". When you use a pronoun, it's standing in for a word you used previously-that's the antecedent. Join us as we demonstrate how to make sure that your pronouns and antecedents match up with one...
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Grammar: The Adverb, and How Adverbs Are Used
This YouTube video lesson defines adverbs, tells how to find them, and how they are used in sentences.
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Grammar: What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Aren't
This is a YouTube video lesson concerning what a verb really is in a sentence. He defines it as a word with a subject.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Issues With Homophones
This lesson goes over homophones that are commonly confused.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conjunctions
This lesson introduces coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. [4:21]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice. [8:25]