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Learning to be Graphic Through a Poem
My Feathered Friend There is a perception among many students that there is little or no connection between the learning of Literature...
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Apr 133 min read
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Creative Writing I: Varying Sentence Structure For Effect
Rapidly they came... In primary school, when students are made to complete exercises on Synthesis and Transformation, (from my experience...
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Mar 152 min read
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Answers to the previous post (Sentences)
Revisions and Explanations You will find that, once you consciously make the effort to look out for features of complete sentences, you...
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Mar 31 min read
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Differentiating Between Complete and Incomplete Sentences
We complete our section on Complete and Incomplete Sentences with an exercise in which you would have to figure why the parts...
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Mar 31 min read
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Sentences Part II: Are the Verses Complete or Incomplete Sentences?
Are the verses in the above poem complete sentences? Verses: Thundering down in torrents, the rain came, battering the barren earth in...
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Feb 222 min read
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Making Sense Through Knowing Grammar
Now we refer back to part of e.e. cummings' poem, `anyone lived in a pretty how town', which is reproduced below. A brief analysis, that...
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Feb 152 min read
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Making Sense of Shakespeare
I have often heard people groan when Shakespeare is mentioned. They seem to think he is beyond the comprehensible; his language is too...
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Feb 73 min read
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Why Grammar Is Necessary...
Grammar is a system used to achieve clarity in communication and we make sense of that system through learning the rules of the system...
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Feb 72 min read
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Do We Need Grammar?
Consider the following extract from a poem by e. e. cummings. anyone lived in a pretty how town anyone lived in a pretty how town (with...
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Feb 51 min read
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Sentences: What makes a sentence complete?
In the above poem, do you think the verses contain complete sentences and/or sentence fragments? Try to answer the question on your own...
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Jan 182 min read
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