Life of Fred Language Arts Series: Begin Teaching (High School)

The second book in the Life of Fred Language Arts Series.  This series is language arts help for high school students. Ellipsis Litotes Meter = 39 inches Ninth way to make plurals Since can be ambiguous The whole point of English Green’s Theorem in Space Consonants as defined by air flow Location of a comma changes the meaning 14ºC = 57ºF What the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common Eleven ways to make plurals 5 cm = 2 inches Run-on sentences Comma splices Appositive phrase Conjunctions, Lyrics, Iambic foot, Pentameter, Trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic feet Scansion Twelfth way to make plurals Three ways to fix a comma splice Eager vs. anxious Not looking at the spelling of a word to decide whether to use a or an Long vowels Twenty-two words that don’t contain a, e, i, o, or u Idioms Affect and effect as verbs Affect and effect as nouns Nouns defined Lie vs. lay Transitive and intransitive verbs The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act Pronouns defined What some people “know” Making “happy as a clam” make sense Scare quotes Sixteen ways to make plurals Cardinality of a set Numbers—when to use words and when to use numerals Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject When to use du and when to use Sie in German Literary symbolism One hundred best first lines from novels What it means to be a graduate student Should the saying be, “The early worm gets eaten”? Dictionary vs. thesaurus Conjugation of a verb in three tenses Existentialism defined The three cases in which a preposition is capitalized in a book title The two numbers in English (singular and plural—I and we) and the three numbers in Russian Six tenses in English Correction: 12 tenses in English. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-937032-14-2, 128 pages Click here to view sample pages.