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The Subjunctive Tense: How It Gets Used 150 150 Suzanne

The Subjunctive Tense: How It Gets Used

Grammar is making a comeback. State-by-state assessments of students in English/Language Arts are causing the teaching of grammar to return to the classroom. Each rule can be a little tricky; this is why isolating each rule and understanding its purpose is a useful method for learning grammar. The subjunctive tense is a verb form that…

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Physics: Understanding Mechanical Energy 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Physics: Understanding Mechanical Energy

Physics: Understanding Mechanical Energy When the work is done upon the object, it gains energy. The energy acquired by the objects upon which work is done is known as mechanical energy. Mechanical energy is the energy that is possessed by an object due to its motion or due to its position relative to zero potential…

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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice

In English grammar, voice shows whether the subject of a sentence is doing the action, or having the action done to it. The voice of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). When the subject is the doer…

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Biology: Components of the Circulatory System 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Biology: Components of the Circulatory System

In humans, the circulatory system has three distinct components. Blood (A fluid that can circulate in the body) Heart (A pump that can circulate the blood around the body) Blood vessels (Tubes that help the blood to circulate.) Blood vessels: The heart circulates blood across the body through a network of tubes called blood vessels.…

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Building a Better Sentence 150 150 Suzanne

Building a Better Sentence

It is with each sentence that a thought is conveyed. To build your words into a more complex, well-expressed thought, understanding how a sentence works will benefit both writing and speaking. Subject – A complete sentence must have a subject, the element of the sentence about which something is said. A subject is always a…

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Phrases and Phraseology: The Basics 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Phrases and Phraseology: The Basics

A phrase is a group of related words within a sentence without both subject and verb. A phrase functions as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective or preposition in a sentence. The function of a phrase depends on its construction. On the basis of their functions and constructions, phrases are divided into the following types. Noun…

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Biology: Muscles in the Human Body 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Biology: Muscles in the Human Body

The human body has more than 650 individual muscles to provide movement for the body. The muscles make up nearly half the weight of the human body. Muscles stretch across joints to link one bone with another and work in groups to respond to nerve impulses. Without muscles we cannot open mouth, speak, shake hands,…

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Revising Essays, or Don’t Hand In a First Draft 150 150 Suzanne

Revising Essays, or Don’t Hand In a First Draft

Writing, writing, writing. In high school, learning how to write takes on a whole new meaning, necessity and importance. Students learn all about the writing process throughout their early years, but now in high school students are writing for higher-stakes purposes. What any teacher will tell you is that the most important thing – the…

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Grammar: Understanding Past Perfect Continuous 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Grammar: Understanding Past Perfect Continuous

We use past perfect continuous to talk about longer actions or events that happened before or up to another action or event in the past. There are also other uses. To express duration of a past action up to a certain point in the past e.g. She had been waiting for 3 hours when we…

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Communicating Clearly: Avoiding Dangling Modifiers 150 150 Suzanne

Communicating Clearly: Avoiding Dangling Modifiers

When the subject of a main clause is insufficiently connected to a word or phrase that modifies it, this word or phrase is described as a ‘dangling modifier.ʼ A proper modifier describes, clarifies, or gives more detail about the main clause, whereas a dangling modifier allows too much gray area with regard to what subject…

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