English and Grammar

Deborah
December 20, 2015
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English Review of Ways to Build Vocabulary

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Overview Building a good vocabulary is an important part of success in English. It helps students to more easily understand what is read, as well as having more words to…

Deborah
December 6, 2015
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English Review of Plot

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Overview Plot is essential to any story. The sequence of events within the story are linked by cause and effect to produce a desired outcome, and keep readers engaged. Plots…

Deborah
October 31, 2015
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English Review of Types of Poetry

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Overview Some of the major types of poetry include narrative poetry, lyric poetry, and prose poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story, while lyric poetry creates a mood. Prose poetry also…

Deborah
October 25, 2015
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English Review of Rhetorical Patterns

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Overview Writers can use particular types of rhetorical patterns to create personal essays, such as narration, description, how-to, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, classification and division, definition, and argument…

Deborah
October 3, 2015
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English Review of Point of View

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Overview Writers use different points of view in essays or stories in order to present and reveal information to their readers. They may choose first-person, second-person, or two types of…

Deborah
September 20, 2015
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English Review of Abstract and Concrete Language

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Overview Writers can make essays more vivid by providing specific, concrete examples for abstract concepts and language. Effective writing requires a balance between the two. Abstract concepts without development are…

Deborah
September 13, 2015
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English Review of Eliminating Wordiness

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Overview Wordiness errors obscure the writer’s message under unnecessary verbiage, such as redundant words or phrases, passive voice, weak “to be” verb forms, and unnecessary expressions. Close reading and editing…

Deborah
August 26, 2015
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English Review of Comma Errors

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Overview Commas separate parts of a sentence grammatically, as well as separate items in a series. Without commas separating clauses, some of the meaning can be changed or lost. Commas…

Deborah
August 23, 2015
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English Review of Pronoun Errors

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Overview Some common types of pronoun errors include pronoun agreement, pronoun ambiguity, pronoun shifts, and pronoun case. Those errors affect clarity of expression. Pronoun Agreement Pronouns should agree in number,…

Deborah
August 7, 2015
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English Review of Kinds of Sentence Fragments

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Overview Sentence fragments are writing errors in which a part of a sentence is punctuated as a complete sentence, with a capital letter at the beginning and closing punctuation at…

English Review of Ways to Build Vocabulary

English Review of Plot

English Review of Types of Poetry

English Review of Rhetorical Patterns

English Review of Point of View

English Review of Abstract and Concrete Language

English Review of Eliminating Wordiness

English Review of Comma Errors

English Review of Pronoun Errors

English Review of Kinds of Sentence Fragments

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