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velvetpie
on Sep 17, 2017
How To
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...
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lindiana
on Sep 19, 2017
How To
English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English.
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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....
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KillerMuffin
on Sep 12, 2017
How To
"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...
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lindiana
on Sep 13, 2017
How To
US English 101 is brought to you by Lindiana, who holds her Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education/English.
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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...
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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...
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velvetpie
on Sep 17, 2017
How To
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...
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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...
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Oz_John
on Sep 25, 2018
Humor & Satire
Someone was foolish enough to post a comment asking for more Captain Erotica. I respond well to such encouragement. This story can be read independently of the other Captain Erotica story.
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Dick was sitting at his desk in the police station, with his hands in his palms, when Mike the janitor came into the office to empty the bin.
"What's the matter, De...
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ItsMeMargie
on Sep 17, 2017
Mature
I was running late to my meeting with my English professor. He had told me he'd really liked my last short story- which happened to be about my first time- and wanted to discuss it further with me. The assignment had been to write about something personal and something sexual, a confession of sorts. And so, I wrote about my first time with George, the kid wh...
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SimonBrooke
on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Cut!
Lill and I and Mrs Price did the editing for the sex scenes up at Mrs Price's house, and like the first time we went up there it was a bit of a shock. I mean you expect teachers to be reasonably conventional people (even though of course really we knew Mrs Price wasn't) and also teachers don't make much money so I expected her to have a small house and...
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