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English 101: Parts of Speech

by lindiana on Sep 19, 2017
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English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English. * * * * * In the English language, there are eight parts of speech: The Noun The noun is a word that is used to name a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns are classified as one of three types: proper/common, abstract/concrete or collective....

Parts of Speech Pt. 01

by velvetpie on Sep 17, 2017
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VELVET'S LAWS OF WRITING PART 01: NOUNS AND VERBS By VelvetPie Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. --William Strunk, Jr. For anyone trying to learn the...

Parts of Speech Pt. 02

by velvetpie on Sep 17, 2017
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PRONOUNS A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun and there are eight types: personal, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, reciprocal and indefinite. Personal pronouns refer to people or things. Examples are I, she, he, their and ours. They are going to the opera. Her hair color is horrible. A relative pronoun is usuall...

US English 101: The Phrase

by lindiana on Sep 13, 2017
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US English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English. * When putting a sentence together, words act not only individually but as a group. The grouped words can work together in a variety of ways but the way we will be concentrating on in this chapter is the phrase. We touched upon the verb ph...

A Crash Course in Grammar

by KillerMuffin on Sep 12, 2017
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"I can't write." I see and hear that a lot from the widest variety of people. They don't like it or they "can't" do it. College students are the worst. After public speaking, expository writing has got to be the most hated class. There's a simple reason why. Once something has been written down someone else comes along and puts red marks all over the p...

Creative Copulation

by JackLuis on Sep 13, 2017
Humor & Satire

The Creator is hard to describe, I mean, he isn't really like you and me. But for the purposes of this tale, let's just say he's a tall old man with a beard? He sits contemplating the full majesty of his creation. Built completely of himself and undoubtedly for his amusement, or just to prove that there can be something more than he. He spends his time in p...

"Tips on Writing Dialog," Said Smokey!

by Smokey125 on Feb 13, 2018
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Good Day! I Began Writing This Essay— Tuesday, January 30th, 2018, 6:31 p.m. "Well, it means being able to find and arrange just the most effective words to communicate your feelings and explain things." —Dr. Deborah Morelli ("Lying Young" part 1) Top of the morning to you! Or, bottom of the evening to you! Or, whenever you happen to be reading. Of the...

Grammatical Erotica Pt. 01-02

by Sappholovers on Sep 12, 2017
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Grammatical Erotica, Part I. Styles for writing erotica should vary just as our lovemaking should vary. There should many times and places for hot, quick, fast, intense sex: Take me hard in the morning, half-asleep, balls squeezed, lips on cock, your pussy moist from your own pleasuring, then mount me quick, and fuck me fast and furious, Hendrix riffing...

Let The Characters Do The Talking

by ronde on Sep 1, 2017
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Most written fiction consists of the narrative description of characters and their actions. While this technique serves to communicate the author’s thoughts to an audience, readers can often infer the same information if the author makes careful use of dialogue. Screenplays use dialogue in this manner. It is true the playwright also makes suggestions for act...

US English 101: Parts of a Sentence

by lindiana on Sep 13, 2017
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English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English. * You can use two terms, subject and predicate, to describe most sentences. However, there are other names and functions of important sentence elements at your disposal. We will review those elements. Subject and Predicate A sentence consis...