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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...
Ereading Worksheets
Clauses | Parts of Speech App
Here is a video that is not short of detailed information on clauses. Delve deep into the workings of predicates, clauses, and dependent clauses, then have pupils show what they know with an interactive pop quiz. End the...
TV411
Dependent and Independent Clauses Join Forces
Young grammarians are often confused by clauses, especially the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Clarify the confusion with a color-coded learning exercise that clearly defines and illustrates the differences and...
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Independent & Dependent Clauses: Subordination & Coordination
Here’s a short video that models for viewers how to use independent and dependent clauses to enrich their writing. With the help of FANBOYS, coordinating conjunctions, (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) and the proper punctuation, writers...
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
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
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]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 9: Nominal Clause as Object of a Preposition
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has a nominal clause that functions as an object of a preposition. [3:23]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Preposition and Prepositional Phrase
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the function of prepositions and prepositional phrases. He also gives examples of incorrect use of them.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Infinitive Phrases: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian gives a lesson on the topic of infinitive phrases. He also explains the way to test an infinitive phrase to see if it is used with grammatical correctness in a sentence. [5:46]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 7: The Nominal Clause as Subject
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has a nominal clause that functions as the subject of the sentence. [2:16]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Dependent Clauses: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the following dependent clause types: noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses. [8:16]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Sentence Diagramming 11: The Subordinate Clause
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to diagram a sentence with a subordinate clause.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 2: Prepositional Phrases: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has a prepositional phrase in it.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This video lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines them, tells what questions they answer, discusses their need for subordinate conjunctions, their locations in sentences, and how to punctuate them correctly. [2:16]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Relative Adverbs
Relative adverbs connect chunks of sentences together. Find out how that works!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrases and Clauses
A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase ("my brother Stu"), an adjectival phrase ("in a different shade of blue"), or an adverbial phrase ("with elegance and tact"). A clause is any noun...