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Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Participial Phrases: Part Ii
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to fix sentence errors that involve particpial phrases which incorporate the passive voice.
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You Tube: Yossarian the Grammarian: What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Are Not
This YouTube video created by "Yossarian the Grammarian," aka Dr. Thomas Peyser, explains the difference between real verbs and words that look like verbs.
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Yossarian the Grammarian: Active Voice and Passive Voice: English Grammar
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to distinguish between the active voice and the passive voice when writing sentences and paragraphs. He also shows how to edit errors that involve the active and passive...
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Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Infinitive Phrases
Video gives examples of sentences with infinitive phrases that have errors. Explanations of the errors and corrected versions of those sentences are given. [6:50]
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Yossarian the Grammarian: Adverbs and Ambiguity
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how clarify and edit adverbs so that they are not ambiguous in a sentence.
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Comma Splices, Independent Clauses, and Subordinate Clauses
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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English Grammar: What Adjectives Are
This is a YouTube video lesson about adjective. Adjectives modify nouns and answer the questions: Which? What kind of? or How many?
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English Grammar: The Adverb, and How Adverbs Are Used
This YouTube video lesson defines adverbs, tells how to find them, and how they are used in sentences.
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English Grammar: What a Verb Is, and What Verbs Aren't
This is a YouTube video lesson concerning what a verb really is in a sentence. He defines it as a word with a subject.
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Grammar: Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs
This is a YouTube video lesson about modal and auxiliary verbs. Modals are verbs such as could, would, or might which cannot stand alone, and auxiliary verbs are verbs such as do, be, and have which can be helping verbs or can stand alone.