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What Are Verbs | Parts of Speech | Learning English
Introduce verbs to students and explain the difference between verbs and other parts of speech with this video. Video Lesson: Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives: • Nouns Verbs & Adj...
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Transformation of Sentences: Simple to Compound
Changing simple sentences to compound sentences. What makes a sentence simple? Simple sentences are made up of one independent clause- that is, it has a subject, it has a verb, and it is a completed thought. What makes a sentence...
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Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students to identify the different sentence structures: simple, compound and complex sentences.
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The Evolution and Usage of 'Thou' and 'You' in English
This video provides an engaging and informative explanation of the historical usage of "thou", "thee", "thy", and "ye" in the English language. It explores how these words were used in early modern English and their relationship to...
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Simple Sentences: Subject & Predicate | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students about subjects and predicates, independent clauses, and what makes a sentence. Includes a worksheet and activities. Download the lesson worksheet (see Link #1) before starting the lesson.
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Present Simple Tense | Learn English
A lesson introducing present simple tense. This lesson teaches how to form present simple and outlines when simple tense should be used. Activities included at the end to practise your skills!
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Past Tense Verbs VS Past Participles
Learn the difference between the past tense form of verbs and past participles. This video also looks at how to form and use present participles.
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Transformation of Sentences: Compound to Complex
In this lesson, we review what compound sentences and complex sentences are, and we learn how to change from compound to complex.
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Reflexive Pronouns | English Grammar
This video lesson explains what reflexive pronouns are and when they are used. The lesson includes activities to follow along with to test your understanding.
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Simple, Compound Complex Sentences #englishgrammar
There are three types of sentence structures. Simple, compound and complex.
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6 Types of Subjects: More than a Noun or a Pronoun
When you think of the subject in the sentence, you usually think of a noun or a pronoun. This is because the subject represents what or whom the sentence is about. Understanding and recognizing the subject of the sentence will help you...
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | English Grammar
Verbs can either be transitive or intransitive. Transitive verbs must have a direct object to complete the thought. Intransitive verbs do not have a direct object.
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Nouns Verbs & Adjectives | Video Lessons
A video lesson teaching students how to identify and use nouns, verbs and adjectives. Lesson includes worksheet and activities. Download the lesson worksheet (see Link #4) before starting the lesson.
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Introduction to the Verb 'To Be' | ESL Lessons
The verb 'to be' is used to describe someone or something. It’s commonly used to talk about names, ages, feelings, professions & nationalities.
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How To Reduce the Adverb Clause (free PDF)
This lesson is an introduction to reducing adverb or adverbial clauses. There may be times when you will want to reduce the adverb clause. The reduced adverb clause is especially used in formal writing by adding variety to your sentence...
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How to Reduce the Adjective Clause: Relative Clause Reduction
An adjective clause, also known as an adjectival, or relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun. In effect, this clause functions as one part of speech: the adjective. Why would you want or need to reduce the...
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Catenative Verbs | A Chain of Verbs
Catenative verbs are verbs that connect to other verb forms and form a chain; thus their name catenative because in Latin, catena means chain. A catenative verb will link or connect to other verbs to form a chain of verbs. And in theory,...
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Past Tenses in English
Consolidate your understanding of the past tenses in English. In this video, we'll teach you all about the four past tenses and how to use them correctly. We'll cover simple past, past perfect, past continuous and past perfect...
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Question Tags | ESL Grammar
A question tag is a very short question ‘tagged’ on to the end of a statement. They're used to turn statements into questions. Question tags are generally used to confirm information that we believe to be true.
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Finite vs Non-Finite Verbs | Learn English
What are finite and non-finite verbs? Finite verbs change form according to the subject. They also show tense. Non-finite verbs do not change to match the subject, and they do not show tense on their own.
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Complex sentences in #englishgrammar #shorts
Complex sentences are made up of an independent clause and a dependent clause. An independent clause has a subject, a verb, and is a completed thought. A dependent clause has a subject, a verb, but is not a completed thought.
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Auxiliary Verbs (Helping Verbs) | Learn English
Auxiliary verbs are often referred to as ‘helping verbs’ because they work with the main verb in a sentence. There are two types of auxiliary verbs: primary and modal. This video explores both primary auxiliary verbs and modal auxiliary...
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An Introduction to Phrasal Verbs | Learn English
Phrasal verbs can be very difficult to learn. They don't follow rules and can have very different meanings from their literal interpretations.
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Types of Phrases | 7 Types | English Grammar | Syntax
A group of words that may take the place of a part of speech is called a phrase. A phrase is a group of connected words, not containing a subject and a predicate. In other words, a phrase does not have a subject and verb. (If a group of...