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Sophia: Semicolons Rule!
This tutorial focuses on semicolons; it provides two audio clips: one explaining how semicolons are different from periods and commas and the other explaining how to use semicolons with conjunctive adverbs. It also provides in slideshow...
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Sophia: Short Quotation Punctuation
This slideshow tutorial focuses on punctuating short quotations; it defines short quotations, explains how to smoothly integrate quotations into your writing, and gives the rules for punctuating them according to method of integration.
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Sophia: Strong Verbs
This tutorial provides a PowerPoint presentation that defines strong verbs, gives examples, and explains why to use them. It also offers a YouTube video of a teacher setting up a "fight" between strong verb and weak verb. The tutorial...
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Sophia: Subjects and Objects
This video lesson focuses on distinguishing between the subject and object of a sentence. Find the verb and determine who is doing the action (subject) and who is receiving the action (object). Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This lesson focuses on subordinating conjunctions; it discusses their purpose, explains the questions they address, and provides a list of them. It also shows how to punctuate sentences with subordinate clauses based on their location in...
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Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This slideshow lesson focuses on subordinating conjunctions by defining them, listing them, and providing examples showing placement and how to punctuate them correctly.
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Sophia: Subordinate Conjunctions
This video lesson focuses on subordinate conjunctions; it defines them and related terms such as dependent and independent clauses, provides a list of common subordinate conjunctions, and examples of their use. It also covers how to...
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Sophia: Suspense
This slideshow focuses on the use of suspense in fiction by stating the purpose of suspense, discussing four ways authors create suspense, showing that all forms of literature contain suspense, and presenting an example with John...
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Sophia: Symbolism
This tutorial focuses on symbolism in literature and how it reveals a deeper meaning. It provides a slide show that discusses what symbolism is, why and how it is used, how to identify it, common symbols, and classic symbols.
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Sophia: The Protagonist
This slideshow focuses on the protagonist; it defines the term, discusses the role in general and in the text, and provides a list of regular and villain protagonists from literature.
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Sophia: The Question Mark
This slideshow lesson discusses the question mark: its purpose, rules and examples for its use, and common errors in usage.
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Sophia: The Simple Future
This lesson focuses on the simple future verb tense; it defines it, explains how it is formed, and provides sentences for students to practice identifying simple future verb with answers that follow.
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Sophia: Verbs
This video lesson focuses on verbs, their functions in sentences, and the 10 most common verbs. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Verbs
This video lesson focuses on verbs: action, linking, and helping. It defines each, explains how they work in a sentence, and how to identify them. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Verb Tenses
This video is a lesson on all 12 verb tenses using graphic organizers.
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Sophia: A Article, an Article, or the Article. . . Which to Use?
This lesson explains what articles are, how they function in a sentence, and how to determine correct article usage. It includes 4 videos about what articles are, how they function, definite, and indefinite articles and how to use them...
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Sophia: Adjective Clause
This lesson focuses on adjective clauses; it defines adjective, clause, and adjective clause. It explains the function of adjective clauses, how they are formed using relative pronouns or adjectives, how to identify them in a sentence,...
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Sophia: Adjective Clauses
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses including defining them, listing the three requirements for them, providing the adjective clause formula, discussing placement and essential vs. non-essential, explaining how to...
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Sophia: Adjectives
This lesson focuses on adjectives including the definition, the role, and the placement of adjectives.
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Sophia: Adjectives
This screencast lesson focuses on adjectives including definition, what they do in a sentence, why they are important, and examples. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Adjectives and Adverbs
This video lesson focuses on adjectives and adverbs; it explains the difference between them. It also discusses when to use adverbs and adjectives and provides examples of each.
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Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines adverb, clause, and adverb clause. It discusses the functions of adverb clauses, how they are formed, what questions they answer in the sentence, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Allegory
This slideshow focuses on allegory by defining characteristics and providing examples.
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Sophia: Apostrophes and Contractions
This lesson focuses on apostrophes and contractions; it defines contractions and discusses how they are formed by using the apostrophe to replace the missing letters. It provides a list of common contractions and the words they stand...