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Sophia: Count and Non Count Nouns
This lesson focuses on count and non-count nouns; these refer to things that can be counted like dogs or trees, or things that cannot be counted like water or sand. It discusses what words can be used with count nouns, others that can be...
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Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This video lesson teaches students how to identify direct and indirect objects and how to tell the difference between them. It defines each, explains what questions each answer, and tells where they are usually located in sentences.
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Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This video lesson focuses on objects: direct, indirect, and objects of a preposition. It explains how to identify direct and indirect objects and where indirect objects are located. It also explains how to tell the difference between an...
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Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects
This slideshow lesson focuses on direct and indirect objects. It defines and gives examples of each and explains that direct objects can be words, phrases, or clauses while indirect objects can be words, phrases, or found in...
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Sophia: Foreshadowing
This tutorial uses a slide show focusing on foreshadowing. It defines foreshadowing, gives types of foreshadowing, prophecy, symbolism, and omen.
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Sophia: Grammar: Sentence Components
This lesson focuses on sentence components. It provides a slideshow with each of the eight parts of speech plus articles; it defines each and gives examples using them in sentences. It also offers the lyrics to "The Grammar Song" in...
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Sophia: Hyphens
This slideshow lesson focuses on the uses of hyphens; it explains what they are and the uses of hyphens including in the following: numbers, adjectives, prefixes, and to clarify meaning. It also provides examples of each use and...
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Sophia: Hyphens
This multimedia tutorial focuses on hyphens; it defines hyphenation, lists uses, provides examples, discusses hyphenation errors, and provides a 7-sentence quiz in text format. It offers two YouTube videos: the first explains when to use...
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Sophia: Identifying the Subject
This instructional activity focuses on identifying the subject of sentences; it defines and discusses what a subject does. It explains how to locate the subject in various sentence constructions: subject-verb order, inverted sentences,...
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Sophia: Identifying the Subject
This video lesson focuses on locating the subject in different sentence constructions such as passive voice, inverted sentences, and sentences where the subject is a complete clause. It provides examples and provides questions for the...
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Sophia: "i.e." vs. "e.g."
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of "i.e." and "e.g." including similarities and differences between them, the specific meanings of each, and how to use them in writing including the proper punctuation.
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Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Writing
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to incorporate quotes into writing. It explains the rules for using quotation marks, discusses how writers use quotation marks, and explains quotation etiquette with examples of single quotations and...
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Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This lesson focuses on articles; it defines article, definite article, and indefinite article and provides examples of each. It explains the difference between "a" and "an" and tells when to use each, and it also discusses the exceptions...
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Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This lesson focuses on articles; it defines definite and indefinite articles and provides examples of each. It explains the a vs. an rule and the exceptions to the rule.
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Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This video lesson covers the rules for the use of definite and indefinite articles; it defines and gives specific examples and rules for each. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Objects
This slideshow lesson focuses on objects: direct objects, indirect objects, and the objects of the preposition; it also discusses objective complements. It defines objects in general and each of the above individually and provides...
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Sophia: One vs. You
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of "one" and "you." It defines each, explains the differences, tells when to use each, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Parts of Speech
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech; it provides 6 short slideshows: the first is an overview of parts of speech, the other 5 are for each of the following parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions;...
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Sophia: Past Continuous Tense
This slideshow lesson discusses the past continuous tense, also referred to as the past progressive tense. It defines the tense, explains what is needed to form the tense, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Past Perfect Continuous
This slideshow lesson explains the past perfect continuous verb tense; it defines it, discusses its purpose, explains how to create it, and provides examples.
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Sophia: Prefixes
This lesson focuses on prefixes; it defines prefix, and discusses the purpose of prefixes and how they can change the base word. It also provides a list of common prefixes with their meanings.
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Sophia: Prefixes and Suffixes
This tutorial begins with a YouTube video rapping about affixes including roots, prefixes, and suffixes. There are two slide shows including one about prefixes and one about suffixes; each includes definition, how it functions, and a...
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Sophia: Prepositional Phrases
This lesson focuses on prepositional phrases; it defines them and discusses their functions. It explains the purpose, role, location, and construction of prepositional phrases.
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Sophia: Recognizing Prepositional Pharases
This tutorial focuses on prepositional phrases and their modifiers. It offers a video lesson including a list of common prepositions and how to punctuate prepositional phrases at the beginning and end of sentences. Real Player is required.