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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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TED-ED: Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie
The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past. More than a century after his death, these remain...
Wonderscape
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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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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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...
Curated Video
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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The Shape Poem
Mr. Griot reviews the elements of a shape poem and reads I. C. Nightly’s “My Good Friend the Moon.” He brainstorms ideas for writing a shape poem.
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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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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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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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Don’t Besmirch Your IELTS Reputation - IELTS Energy Podcast 1296
Today you'll learn five phrases to talk about the negatives of something or someone, especially if you don't agree with a bad reputation. Listen today for Band 9 negative vocabulary and Band 9 positive answers.
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Don’t Let IELTS Vocabulary Dog You - IELTS Energy Podcast 1229
You need to have dogged determination when it comes to getting the IELTS score you need! Today you'll learn four idiomatic phrases related to dogs. Listen in so you can overcome the dog-eat-dog world of IELTS preparation!
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What are ‘Complex Structures’ Anyway? - IELTS Energy Podcast 1246
Have you looked at the IELTS band descriptors? They can be hard to understand, even for natives. Today we'll do a deep dive into the grammar score, and you'll find out, in simple language, what the Examiner needs to hear for a 7+ in this...
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Using Describing Words
Miss Palomine explains to the student that we can use describing words to describe things. She then uses examples of a flower, a cookie, and a pair of socks and puts them into categories defined by their describing words.
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English Five a Day #4 - Expand Your Vocabulary
Take this 5-day English challenge to expand your vocabulary. Watch day 4 and grab your worksheet. Download your worksheet: https://bit.ly/3LT8x4L Complete the writing task and post your work in the comments. I am excited to read your...