TED Talks
TED: The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen | Mary Norris
Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a Major League Baseball team -- every little movement gets picked over by the critics, says Mary Norris, who has played the position for more than thirty years. In that time,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them...
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How to Use a Semicolon
Howcast - Emphasize the close relationship between two sentences by using a semicolon to form a compound sentence.
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How to Use a Comma
Howcast - If you ever sprinkle a sentence with too many commas, or miss a few, this guide will keep you from repeating your mistakes.
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How to Use Commas to Separate Clauses
Howcast -Learn how to use commas to separate clauses from Gotham Writers' Workshop instructor Stephanie Paterik in this Howcast grammar video.
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How to Use Commas for Clarity
Howcast -Learn how to use commas for clarity from Gotham Writers' Workshop instructor Stephanie Paterik in this Howcast grammar video.
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Generating ideas for parenthesis in a report about a penguin
Pupil outcome: I can say and write ideas for parenthesis using information about macaroni penguins. Key learning points: - Parenthesis can be achieved with a range of punctuation, including brackets and commas. - Any type of parenthesis...
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Generating ideas for parenthesis in a non-chronological report about pandas
Pupil outcome: I can say and write ideas for parenthesis using information about pandas. Key learning points: - Parenthesis can be achieved with a range of punctuation, including brackets and commas. - Any type of parenthesis is...
Oxford Comma
Why Are Commas So Confusing?
Commas serve many functions, but their role in writing has also changed over time. Learning about this change can help students better understand why commas are confusing and how they can better use them in their own writing.
Wonderscape
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...
Wonderscape
Understanding Definition and Mood Clues
Discover how readers can use definition clues, signaled by words like "is" or "means," to directly understand the meanings of unknown words within a sentence. Learn how mood and tone clues, indicated by the atmosphere and the author's...
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Modern JavaScript from the Beginning - Second Edition - Movie Details Page
In this video, we will create a movie details page that displays more information about a selected movie. We will fetch additional data from the API and use a template literal to dynamically render the content. This clip is from the...
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The Front-End Web Developer Bootcamp - HTML, CSS, JS, and React - useCapture
This video dives into the concept of event capturing in JavaScript. You will learn about the useCapture parameter in the addEventListener method and how it affects the order in which event handlers are triggered during event propagation....
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The Front-End Web Developer Bootcamp - HTML, CSS, JS, and React - Concat and Join Methods
In this video, you will learn to combine multiple arrays into a single array using concat(). Additionally, you will learn about join(), which converts an array into a string by concatenating its elements with a specified separator.
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JavaScript Mastery from Zero to Hero - Prepare for Coding Interviews - Formatting and toUpperCase with JavaScript
This video covers how to format and change the case of strings in JavaScript using the toUpperCase method. This clip is from the chapter "Algorithms - Basics and Fundamentals to Intermediate" of the series "JavaScript Mastery from Zero...
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Python Bootcamp in a Day - Python Programming for Beginners - String Functions
This video explains string functions in Python. This clip is from the chapter "Processing Information" of the series "Python Bootcamp in a Day - Python Programming for Beginners".This section explains how to process information in Python.
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Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Project: Conversational Chatbot Development with Machine Learning: Bot Finishing
After setting all elements of the chatbot, we will complete the bot by inputting queries and data and receiving responses from the chatbot based on the question placed. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots with Machine...
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Review for You: Understanding Quotes
Mr. Griot reviews dialogue and the types of punctuation that are commonly used when writing it.
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Review for You: Using Commas
Mr. Griot reviews the comma and the many ways it is used to punctuate common sentences.
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Review for You:Prepositions, Interjections, and Conjunctions
Mr. Griot reviews prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions and provides discussion and strategies for the identification and function of each in the sentence.
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The Right Place
Mr. Addit teaches about place value through the millions by introducing the idea of the base 10 system and using base 10 blocks.
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Using Commas: Introductory Element
Using Commas: Introductory Element shows how to use of a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence by adding commas where necessary to correct sentences.
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Parentheses in Sentences
Parentheses in Sentences demonstrates correct English grammar and conventions by using parentheses in sentences to set off nonrestrictive, parenthetical elements.
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Commas in Sentences
Commas in Sentences demonstrates correct English grammar and convention by using commas in sentences to set off nonrestrictive, parenthetical elements.