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Enduring Literature Series
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The complete text of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The complete text of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
On The Duty of Civil Disobedience
The complete text of Henry David Thoreau's On The Duty of Civil Disobedience.
Pinocchio - The Tale of a Puppet
The complete text of C. Collodi's Pinocchio - The Tale of a Puppet.
Through The Looking Glass
The complete text of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass.
Walden
The complete text of Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
Walking
The complete text of Henry David Thoreau's Walking.
White Fang
The complete text of Jack London's novel White Fang.
Historic Document Series
The Constitution of The United States of America
The complete text of the Constitution of The United States of America.
The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America
The complete text of the Declaration of Independence of The United States of America.
The Gettysburg Address
The complete text of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
The Magna Carta
The complete text of The Magna Carta.
The United States Bill of Rights
The complete text of The United States Bill of Rights.
Language Arts Series
Syllables and Syllabication
This lesson teaches the basics of syllables and syllabication and includes the definition of a syllable, examples of single syllable and multiple syllable words, and the rules of syllabication.
Parts of Speech
A parts of speech information document that includes definitions and practical examples.
Grammar Rules Guide
A helpful, easy to use grammar rules guide for writers of all ages.
Active and Passive Voice
The voice of a verb tells whether the subject of the sentence performs or receives the action.
Adjective, Adverb, and Noun Clauses
A clause is a group of related words that has both a subject and a predicate.
Adjectives
Adjectives are words that are used to modify a noun.
Adverbs
An adverb is a word or group of words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
Appositives
Appositives are two words or word groups that mean the same thing and are placed together.
Auxiliary Verbs
Auxiliary or helping verbs are verbs that are used to help form verb phrases but cannot do so independently.
Common and Proper Nouns
Every noun can be distinguished as common or proper.
Comparatives and Superlatives
Comparative is the second or middle degree of comparison in adjectives or adverbs; Superlative is the third or highest degree of comparison in adjectives or adverbs.
Complements
A complement is called a complement because it completes the predicate in a sentence.
Conjunctions
Conjunctions are grammatical connectors that link words, phrases or clauses.
Conjunctive Adverbs
A conjunctive adverb is an adverb that connects independent clauses.
Dangling Modifiers
A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause that does not connect grammatically with what it is intended to modify.
Direct and Indirect Objects
A direct object is the word or words in a sentence designating the person or thing receiving the action of a transitive verb.
Fused Sentences, Run-Ons, and Comma Splices
A fused sentence (also known as a run-on sentence) occurs when two independent clauses are joined without any punctuation or connecting word between them. A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are joined by only a comma.
Homophones
Homophones are words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.
Independent and Dependent Clauses
A clause is a group of words that includes a subject and a predicate. An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence, while a dependent clause must be accompanied by an independent clause.
Interjections
Interjections are words or expressions that are inserted into a sentence to convey surprise, strong emotion, or to gain attention.
Mass and Count Nouns
Every noun can also be distinguished as count or mass. Count nouns can be quantified or counted with a number, while mass Nouns are uncountable by a number.
Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced modifiers are single words, phrases, or clauses that do not point clearly to the word or words they modify.
Noun and Pronoun Case
Case refers to how nouns and pronouns are used in relation to the other words in a sentence.
Noun and Verb Phrases
A verb phrase is a phrase (a group of related words lacking a subject or a verb) that consists of a main verb plus one or more helping verbs.
Nouns
A noun is a name word: a type of word that gives a name to a person, place, or thing.
Parallelism
Parallelism occurs when compound verbs or verbals express actions taking place at the same time or in the same tense.
Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms
The perfect form is the verb tense used to indicate a completed, or perfected, action or condition. The progressive form is a verb tense used to show an ongoing action in progress at some point in time.
Prepositional Phrases
A prepositional phrase is a group of words including a preposition and a noun, pronoun, or group of words used as a noun.
Prepositions
A preposition is a word or group of words that shows the relationship—in time, space, or some other senses—between its object and another word in the sentence.
Principal Parts of Verbs
The three principal parts of verbs are the present tense form, the past tense form, and the past participle.
Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement
A pronoun and its antecedent are in agreement if they are both singular or both plural.
Pronouns
Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns.
Regular and Irregular Verbs
Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verbs and irregular verbs, on the basis of how their past tense and past participles are formed.
Relative Clauses
A relative clause acts as a clause that modifies a noun or pronoun. They can either be restrictive or nonrestrictive.
Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses
A restrictive modifying clause (or essential clause) is an adjective clause that is essential to the meaning of a sentence because it
limits the thing it refers to. A nonrestrictive modifying clause (or nonessential clause) is an adjective clause that adds extra or nonessential information to a sentence.
Sentence Fragments
A sentence fragment is a part of a sentence punctuated as if it were a complete sentence.
Sentence Types
Sentences can be simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Subjects and Predicates
In English, every sentence has two essential parts: a complete subject and a complete predicate.
Verb Mood
Verbs may be in one of three moods: indicative, imperative, or subjunctive.
Verbals and Verbal Phrases
Verbals are verb forms that act as another part of speech in a sentence (i.e. as adjectives, nouns and adverbs).
Poetry For The Ages Series
The Hunting of the Snark
The complete text of Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark.
The Song of Hiawatha
The complete text of Henry W. Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha.
Paradise Lost
The complete text of John Milton's poem Paradise Lost.
Walt Whitman Poetry Archive
This archive contains five volumes of Walt Whitman's poetry - Leaves of Grass, Drum Taps, Walt Whitman, Songs of Parting, and Chants Democratic.
Vanity Press Series
Flat Stanley in South Florida
Cool Mom recounts Flat Stanley's visit to south Florida, with a little help from her favorite ghostwriter.
The Maids From Hell
Having a maid service solves dispute over division of household chores, but there is a downside.
My Garden is a Park. Really.
An unlikely person becomes instrumental in the rebirth of a small park on Oregon's south coast.
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