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Yossarian the Grammarian

Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Participial Phrases: Part I

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to edit error in sentences that have participial phrases. [8:53]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

Participial Phrases and Participles as Adjectives: English Grammar Lesson

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the topic of participial phrases and participles as adjectives. [4:34]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

Yossarian the Grammarian: More on Restrictive Elements, Grammar

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to punctuate restrictive clauses and phrases. He also show the viewer how to revise restrictive clauses for clarity. [7:24]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

English Grammar Lesson: Past Participles and Present Participles

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the differences among the following verb tenses: past tense verbs, present participle verbs, and past participle verbs. [4:28]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

Gerunds and Gerund Phrases: English Grammar Lesson

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains what gerunds are. He also explains how gerunds function in a sentence. [5:16]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

Yossarian the Grammarian: Appositive and Punctuation: English Grammar, Language

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how punctuate appositive phrases. [8:05]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

Infinitive Phrases: English Grammar Lesson

9th - 10th Standards
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]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

The Nominal Phrase: English Grammar

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the topic of "nominal phrase" to students. [9:55]
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Yossarian the Grammarian

Comma Splices, Independent Clauses, and Subordinate Clauses

9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to avoid comma splices when working with independent and subordinate clauses. [6:42]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Prepositional Phrases

9th - 10th Standards
Prepositional phrases are word chunks that begin with a preposition.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Phrases and Clauses

9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Clauses: Lesson 1

9th - 10th Standards
This video [2:18] introduces clauses and discusses how to recognize them. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Clauses." Incldues a short quiz.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Phrases: Lesson 2

9th - 10th
This lesson introduces phrases and discusses how to recognize them. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Phrases."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Correcting Split Infinitives

9th - 10th
This lesson discusses how to recognize and correct a split infinitive. [5:32]
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How to Recognize a Phrase: No Nonsense Grammar

1st - 5th Standards
This video focuses on phrases, groups of related words that does not include both a subject and a verb. It only has one or the other.