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TED-ED: Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword
Few mistakes sour good writing like nominalizations, or, as Helen Sword likes to call them, zombie nouns. Zombie nouns transform simple and straightforward prose into verbose and often confusing writing. Keep your nouns away from...
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Exploring Adverbs in English Grammar
Discover the role of adverbs in enhancing our understanding of verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs in sentences. Learn how adverbs provide details on how, when, where, and to what extent actions occur, making language more vivid and...
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Understanding Superlative Adjectives
Dive into the world of superlative adjectives, used for comparing three or more nouns to highlight the highest degree or quality. Learn how to form superlative adjectives by adding "-est" to words, dealing with irregular adjectives, and...
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Mastering Basic Parts of Speech: The Foundations of Language
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the essential parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It explains how these elements combine to form correct and complete sentences, enhancing communication. The...
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Adjectives: Adding Color and Detail to Sentences
Discover the role of adjectives in language as they add description and detail to nouns. This video highlights how adjectives like 'blue', 'tall', 'scary', and 'small' enhance sentences, providing examples of adjectives placed both next...
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Adjectives in Action: Placement Matters
This video explores how adjectives function in sentences, focusing on their placement after verbs. Using examples like the colors of the American flag and the description of a hat, the lesson explains how adjectives can follow verbs to...
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Punctuation Perfection: Using Commas with Adjectives
This video focuses on the correct use of commas in sentences with multiple adjectives, using engaging examples like fish descriptions and seaweed hiding spots. It teaches how commas separate adjectives to make sentences clearer and...
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Mastering Adjective Order in Language
This video explains the importance of the correct order of adjectives in sentences. Using examples like "big, blue, beach umbrella" and "three tiny baby crabs," it illustrates how the sequence of adjectives like size, color, number, and...
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The World of Adjectives: Describing Our World
This video introduces the concept of adjectives, words that describe nouns, providing examples to illustrate their importance in language. It explains how adjectives can describe size, shape, color, quantity, and texture, enhancing our...
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Adverbs: Enhancing Actions and Descriptions in Language
Explore the function of adverbs, which describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, and provide details about when, where, how, or to what extent something happens. This video demonstrates through examples how adverbs like 'happily',...
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Mastering Comparative and Superlative Adverbs in English
Uncover the nuances of forming comparative and superlative adverbs to elevate your English writing and speaking skills. This guide delves into the transformation of adverbs, highlighting the distinction between regular adverbs ending in...
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Mastering Comparative Adjectives
Explore the world of comparative adjectives, which are used to highlight differences between two nouns. Learn the rules for forming comparative adjectives, including when to add "-er," double consonants, change "y" to "i" before adding...
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Enhancing Narratives with Adjectives and Adverbs
Discover how to use adjectives and adverbs to add color and detail to your stories, such as describing a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Learn about descriptive adjectives, adjectives of quantity, and number adjectives to make your writing...
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Comparative Adjectives and Game for Kids
In this educational adventure, children will discover how to compare different things using words like "bigger," "smaller," "faster," and more. With vibrant animations and clear explanations, we'll explore the concept of comparative...
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Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: Remove Tags and Lemmatize
In this video, we will look at removing tags or symbols that we do not want to use in our word token development process. We will then lemmatize the word token using the tag map lemmatizer. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of...
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Review for You: Participles
Mr. Griot will review participles and how to correctly use them in a sentence.
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Review for You: Adverbs
Mr. Griot reviews adverbs and how they are best used in a sentence.
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Safari Scholar: Searching for Adjectives
The Safari Scholar searches the jungle for adjectives. He explains how to identify adjectives and add creative adjectives to sentences.
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Adjectives: Describe and Compare
Mr. Griot reviews adjectives and explains the rules when using comparative adjectives.
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Nouns and Adjectives
This video entitled "Noun and Adjectives" discusses the relationship between nouns and adjectives and explains how to diagram a simple sentence.
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Infinitives vs. Gerunds: 6 Tips for ESL Learners | EasyTeaching
Both infinitives and gerunds can act as nouns, and for this reason, it can be confusing to know whether we need to use the infinitive or the gerund in a sentence. In this video, we'll explore six invaluable tips to help ESL learners...
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Adjectives & Adverbs
"Adjectives & Adverbs" reviews and identifies adjectives and adverbs.