Yossarian the Grammarian: Is My Participle a Verb or an Adjective?

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian clarifies the function of verbs.

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the differences among the following verb tenses: past tense verbs, present participle verbs, and past participle verbs. [4:28]

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to edit error in sentences that have participial phrases. [8:53]

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates what an expletive, a pronoun without an antecedent, is.

Act and act, address and address...there are so many words in our dictionary that can function as nouns or verbs. Start this lesson by having your class list as many as they possibly can. When an adequate list presents itself, have your...

This YouTube video created by "Yossarian the Grammarian," aka Dr. Thomas Peyser, explains the difference between real verbs and words that look like verbs.

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to distinguish between the active voice and the passive voice when writing sentences and paragraphs. He also shows how to edit errors that involve the active and passive...

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to interpret a sentence that uses present progressive verb tense and ambiguous wording.

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the functions of modal verbs and auxiliary verbs.

This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the role of a transitive verb and the role of the direct object that receives the action.