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What are Linking Verbs? | Auxiliary Verbs
A linking verb is a type of auxiliary verb that does not show any action. It simply links, or joins, the subject of a sentence to the subject complement (a word that identifies or describes the subject). The forms of the verbs to be, to...
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Do You Qualify?
A music video starring Benny the Adverb. He's the coach, the boss, the big cheese, and all you verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs had better follow his orders.
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A Preposition Locates an Object in Time
Li'l Pete gives his friends multiple options of when to play with him.
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A Preposition Locates an Object in Space
Li'l Pete the preposition looks everywhere for an artist's pencil, only to find it in the most unlikely of places.
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Full Stop.
A music video starring Officer Period, the town's tender-hearted traffic cop.
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Perfect Progressive Tense | Perfect Continuous Tense : Past, Present & Future
In this lesson, we will learn about the perfect progressive tense, also known as the perfect continuous tense. In previous lessons, we’ve learned that the PROGRESSIVE TENSE, also called the CONTINUOUS TENSE is used to describe actions...
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Adverb Clauses: An Adverb Clause is a Part of Speech Classed as an Adverb
Adverb clauses also known as adverbial clauses function as one part of speech: the adverb. We know that an adverb answer modifies a verb, an adjective, and another adverb. It answers the question “when?”, “where?”, “how?”, “why?” “to...
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It's How You Feel
A music video starring Izzy the Interjection. No matter what kind of emotion you're trying to express, Izzy is the one to help make it happen.
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A Conjunction Joins Word Groups
When it comes to jumping, Connie knows that on a trampoline is better than off a cliff.
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Paint the Way
A music video starring Jake the Adjective. Follow along as Jake uses adjectives to describe the beautiful world we live in.
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I Got the Blues
A music video starring Roger the Pronoun. He wants to live alone, but he knows that nobody will understand him without the noun he's replacing.
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A Pronoun Takes the Place of a Noun
Roger the pronoun tricks Nelson to take his place in line.
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Let's Bring it All Together
A music video starring Connie the Conjunction. Everyone can join in and sing along as Connie brings words and word groups together!
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A Conjunction Joins Words
Connie the conjunction averts catastrophe by encouraging the nouns to work together.
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Subject, Object, Possessive, and Reflexive Pronouns
In this lesson, you will learn about pronoun case. There are four common pronoun cases: subject, object, possessive, and reflexive. Examples are given. My apologies for the sound. Was having trouble with the mic. :-)
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An Adjective Modifies a Pronoun
After Jake gives Roger two free tickets to the circus, the adjective gets to describe how Roger feels.
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A Pronoun Takest the Place of Another Pronoun
Those shady pronouns are at it again. This time, they try to sell a bridge to an unsuspecting noun.
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Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs
A group of words that may take the place of a part of speech is called a phrase. In an earlier lesson, I explained the seven types of phrases, but in this lesson, I expand on the prepositional phrase. The prepositional phrase is a...
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Introduction to Verbs
This video is Part 2 on Parts of Speech. In this video, verbs are explained with examples given. Learn about auxiliary verbs, linking verbs, verb phrases, and verbs that assert action or condition. #partsofspeech #Englishgrammar...
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Advanced Grammar: Parts of Speech Introduction to Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives
This video is Part 1 on Parts of Speech. In this video, we explain the parts of speech and their role in the sentence. Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives and explained with examples given. #partsofspeech #Englishgrammar #educationalvideos
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Active and Passive Voice of Verbs | English Grammar Lesson
Voice is one of the five properties of verbs. The voice of a verb determines whether the subject performs or receives the action. In today's lesson, you will learn about the two grammatical voices: active and passive. You will learn how...
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The Best Apostrophe Song You’ve Ever Heard
A music video starring Prosecutor Apostrophe. He's the best at contracting you for posession.
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A Preposition Introduces a Prepositional Phrase
Li'l Pete may be at the front of a prepositional phrase, but without the phrase, he's just an adverb.
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An Adverb Modifies an Adjective
When an adjective is hungry, all it takes is for an adverb to share his sandwich to make the adjective not hungry.