TED Talks
TED: 5 tips for dealing with meeting overload | Cindy Solomon
Could this meeting have been an email? The phenomenon of "calendar creep," where meetings completely take over your work days, is wasting time, energy and productivity -- but you can take back control. Leadership expert Cindy Solomon...
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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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Pronouns Produce Interesting Paragraphs
Mr. Griot explains that pronouns can make writing a lot more interesting. Then he describes different types of pronouns: singular, plural, object, and subject.
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Verbs of Being
Mr. Griot introduces the verb of being and shows examples in sentences.
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Action Verbs
Mr. Griot explains that a verb is an action word in a sentence and shows examples of verbs in sentences.
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What’s the Word on Adverb Alley?
Mr. Griot visits Adverb Alley and interviews customers at a sports shop while he listens to their responses for adverbs in sentences.
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For the Love of Grammar
Mr. Griot defines and gives examples of nouns, verbs, and articles. He also explains the difference between sentence fragments and complete sentences.
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Linking Verbs for Kids: An Interactive Grammar Lesson
Students will learn how to find linking verbs in a sentence. It will help students locate the subject.
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What Are Verbs | Parts of Speech | Learning English
Introduce verbs to students and explain the difference between verbs and other parts of speech with this video. Video Lesson: Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives: • Nouns Verbs & Adj...
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Recognizing and Correcting Run-On Sentences
In this video, the teacher guides students through a lesson on recognizing and correcting run-on sentences. The teacher explains the components of a complete sentence, such as the subject and predicate, and demonstrates how to identify...
Grammaropolis
An Action Verb Expresses Action (Intransitive)
It's intransitive action day, so Vinny the action verb can't have a friend over. He has to play by himself.
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Using Vivid Verb Phrases to Make Your Writing More Descriptive
In this video, the teacher explains how writers can make their writing more descriptive by replacing linking verbs with vivid verb phrases. The lesson includes examples and prompts for students to practice using strong verb phrases to...
The Learning Depot
What are Linking Verbs? | Auxiliary Verbs
A linking verb is a type of auxiliary verb that does not show any action. It simply links, or joins, the subject of a sentence to the subject complement (a word that identifies or describes the subject). The forms of the verbs to be, to...
Englishing
ESL - Direct and Indirect Objects
Direct objects follow action verbs and they receive the action of the verb. Indirect objects instead, tell to or for who and to or for what the action of the verb is done. In this lesson, Mr. P. will explain direct and indirect objects...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Grammaropolis
Lights! Camera!! Action Verb!!!
A music video starring Vinny the Action Verb and Lucy the Linking Verb. Vinny saves a noun from a burning building, but that's just too much action for Lucy.
Curated Video
Using Descriptive Language to Paint a Picture in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using descriptive language in writing to help readers visualize and engage with the text. They provide examples of weak linking verbs and encourage students to revise sentences by...
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Adding Vivid Verbs to Improve Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using vivid verbs in writing to help readers visualize and understand the writer's message. The teacher provides examples of action verbs and linking verbs and demonstrates how to...
TMW Media
Present Simple Tense - Negative form and questions
This lesson teaches Present Simple Tense Sentence Forms (Positive, Negative, Question), Contractions (Does Not/Doesn't, Is Not/Isn't), Pronunciation (Voiced and Voiceless Sounds, Words Endings (S, CH, IZ).
Schoolhouse Rock
Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar Rock: Verb!that's What's Happening
Rock into action with this grammar song about verbs. The song teaches that a verb is "what's happening." There are multiple examples of action words. The song also teaches about a verb as a state of being. This song makes you want to move!