High School Grammar

High School Grammar

Lesson 1: Introduction to Grammar

Lesson 2: Introduction to nouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 3: Introduction to singular and plural nouns

Lesson 4: Irregular plural nouns | -f to -ves | The parts of speech

Lesson 5: Irregular plural nouns | words that end in -en

Lesson 6: Irregular plural nouns | base plurals | The parts of speech

Lesson 7: Common and proper nouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 8: Concrete and abstract nouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 9: Irregular plural nouns | the MUTANT PLURALS

Lesson 10: Irregular plural nouns | foreign plurals | The parts of speech

Lesson 11: BONUS VIDEO | Origin of the Mutant Plural

Lesson 12: Introduction to verbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 13: Introduction to agreement | The parts of speech

Lesson 14: Introduction to verb tense | The parts of speech

Lesson 15: The present tense | The parts of speech

Lesson 16: The past tense | The parts of speech

Lesson 17: The future tense | The parts of speech

Lesson 18: Helping verbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 19: Linking verbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 20: Introduction to irregular verbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 21: The funky -ed irregular verb | The parts of speech

Lesson 22: The vowel-shift irregular verb | The parts of speech

Lesson 23: The irregular verb gets taken for a ride

Lesson 24: The truly irregular verbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 25: Introduction to verb aspect | The parts of speech

Lesson 26: Simple Aspect | The parts of speech

Lesson 27: Progressive Aspect | The parts of speech

Lesson 28: Perfect Aspect | The parts of speech

Lesson 29: Perfect progressive aspect | The parts of speech

Lesson 30: Modal verbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 31: What is a pronoun? | The parts of speech

Lesson 32: Personal pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 33: Possessive pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 34: Reflexive pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 35: Relative pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 36: That versus which | The parts of speech

Lesson 37: Who versus whom | The parts of speech

Lesson 38: Subject and object pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 39: Grammatical person and pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 40: Pronoun number | The parts of speech

Lesson 41: Indefinite Pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 42: Emphatic pronouns | The parts of speech

Lesson 43: BONUS VIDEO | Singular They | The parts of speech

Lesson 44: Intro to adjectives | The parts of speech

Lesson 45: Intro to articles | The parts of speech

Lesson 46: Definite and indefinite articles | The parts of speech

Lesson 47: Intro to adverbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 48: Adjective order | The parts of speech

Lesson 49: Adjectives and commas | Adjectives

Lesson 50: Intro to the comparative and the superlative | The parts of speech

Lesson 51: Forming comparative and superlative modifiers | The parts of speech

Lesson 52: Relative adverbs | The parts of speech

Lesson 53: Intensifiers and adverbs of degree | The parts of speech

Lesson 54: Meet the preposition | The parts of speech

Lesson 55: Prepositions of space | The parts of speech

Lesson 56: Prepositions of time | The parts of speech

Lesson 57: Prepositions of neither space nor time | The parts of speech

Lesson 58: Compound prepositions | The parts of speech

Lesson 59: Prepositional phrases | The parts of speech

Lesson 60: Terminal prepositions | The parts of speech

Lesson 61: Coordinating conjunctions | The parts of speech

Lesson 62: Subordinating conjunctions | The parts of speech

Lesson 63: Correlative conjunctions | The parts of speech

Lesson 64: Beginning sentences with conjunctions | The parts of speech

Lesson 65: Three ways to end a sentence | Punctuation

Lesson 66: Meet the Comma | Punctuation

Lesson 67: Salutations and valedictions | Punctuation

Lesson 68: Commas in space and time | The Comma | Punctuation

Lesson 69: Commas and introductory elements | Punctuation

Lesson 70: Punctuating a list | Punctuation

Lesson 71: More uses for commas | Punctuation

Lesson 72: Commas in dialogue | Punctuation

Lesson 73: Appositives | Punctuation

Lesson 74: BONUS: The Oxford comma | Punctuation

Lesson 75: Introduction to the apostrophe | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 76: Introduction to contractions | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 77: Introduction to the possessive | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 78: Possession for words ending in “s” | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 79: Advanced (plural) possession | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 80: Apostrophes and plurals | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 81: Choosing between its and it’s | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 82: BONUS: History of the apostrophe | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 83: BONUS: History of the possessive apostrophe | The Apostrophe | Punctuation

Lesson 84: How to use italics and underlines | Punctuation

Lesson 85: Using quotation marks in titles | Punctuation

Lesson 86: Dashes | Punctuation

Lesson 87: Hyphens vs. dashes | Punctuation

Lesson 88: Parentheses | Punctuation

Lesson 89: Ellipses | Punctuation

Lesson 90: BONUS: "FANBOYS," a mnemonic song | Conjunctions | Parts of speech

Lesson 91: What is a sentence? | Syntax

Lesson 92: Three types of sentence | Syntax

Lesson 93: Exclamations | Syntax

Lesson 94: Simple and compound sentences | Syntax

Lesson 95: Complex sentences | Syntax

Lesson 96: Compound-complex sentences | Syntax

Lesson 97: Subject-verb agreement | Syntax

Lesson 98: Pronoun-antecedent agreement | Syntax

Lesson 99: Recognizing fragments | Syntax

Lesson 100: Run-ons and comma splices | Syntax

Lesson 101: Subjects and predicates | Syntax

Lesson 102: Subject, direct object, and indirect object | Syntax

Lesson 103: Dangling modifiers | Syntax

Lesson 104: Phrases and clauses | Syntax

Lesson 105: Dependent and independent clauses | Syntax

Lesson 106: Relative clauses | Syntax

Lesson 107: Parallel structure | Syntax

Lesson 108: To, two, and too | Frequently confused words | Usage

Lesson 109: The scale of formality | Style

Lesson 110: Irony | Style

Lesson 111: Bare/bear, allowed/aloud, advice/advise, break/brake | Frequently confused words | Usage

Lesson 112: Under- and overstatement | Style

Lesson 113: There, their, and they're | Frequently confused words | Usage

Lesson 114: Less versus fewer | Frequently confused words | Usage

Lesson 115: Hear/here and accept/except | Frequently confused words | Usage

Lesson 116: Compliment/complement and desert/dessert | Frequently confused words | Usage

Lesson 117: Alliteration, Assonance, and Onomatopoeia | Style

Lesson 118: Affect and effect | Frequently confused words | Usage

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