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Misplaced Modifiers
This video will cover modifiers and how best to identify them and rectify them within sentences where they are misplaced.
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Subject and Verb Agreement
The student will learn the rules for proper use of singular and plural subjects and verbs by looking at examples in sentences.
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Punctuation Place: Exclamation
Dr. Reed Moore explains that when strong feelings need to be expressed, a writer uses an exclamatory sentence with its punctuation.
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Dependent Clauses
Dependent Clauses identifies and defines various types of clauses by reading sentences that contain noun, relative, and adverbial clauses.
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Descriptive Language
This video explores the idea of descriptive language and how tone, mood, and imagery all work in conjunction to enhance any form of writing.
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Idioms and Puns
Explore idioms and puns by interpreting literal and figurative meanings.
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Brain-to-Text Communications Using Machine Learning?
Can we use machine learning to read your mind?
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Musical Syntax
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti describes his research of considering structural relations between language, motor function and music in the hopes of revealing insights in the underlying processing of our brains.
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Strongly Constrained
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Instutute for Advanced Study) describes how today's theorists have much less room to manoeuvre than is often supposed.
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Linguistic Retrieval
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) highlights the key issue of "retrieval" so integral to sentence production.
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Distracted by Language
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, describes how we must make sure that we don't distract ourselves by the language that we use to describe the physical world, and must instead simply focus on precisely...
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Testing Language
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his research of testing what is happening in our minds when we speak.
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Structural Similarities
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti describes how he developed the hypothesis that language and mathematics might be linked to a certain syntactical structure in our brains and how he went about experimentally testing the idea using fMRI...
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Metalinguistic Awareness
York University psychologist Ellen Bialystok describes her research on how bilingualism increases metalinguistic awareness - knowledge about language and its structure.
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Exclamations
“Exclamations” explains what exclamations are and demonstrates the use of exclamation points to end sentences.
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ELA6_02_PronounCase_Video.mp4
“Pronoun Case” explores proper use of subjective, objective, and possessive pronoun cases.
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Finalizing Writing
A video entitled “Finalizing Writing” which explores three steps of the writing process: revising, editing, and publishing.
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Parenthetical Punctuation
A video entitled “Parenthetical Punctuation” which presents ways to use marks of punctuation (commas, parentheses, and dashes) to indicate nonrestrictive elements.
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Practise your French Tenses Identification IR Verbs
In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise identifying the tenses of IR verbs
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Practise Your French C'est, ces or ses?
In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa explains the difference between "C'est", "Ces" and "Ses" !
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Practise your French verb ÊTRE (TO BE)
In this episode Alexa takes a look at the French verb ÊTRE (TO BE).
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Practise your French TOUT - "Tout, toutes, tous, toute"
In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you understand the subtle nuances between tout, toutes, tous, and toute.
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Practise your French Tenses Identification ER Verbs
In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise identifying the tenses of ER verbs
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Practise your French Comparatives -"Plus que, moins que, aussi que"
In this episode of Alexa's 'Practise Your French' series, Alexa helps you practise the French Comparatives - "Plus que, moins que, aussi que".