| Learn to write Better English at Home |
| Intermediate Lessons |
| English is a rich and confusing language. It has borrowed words from French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, and many other languages. American English, as spoken in the United States and much of Canada, also includes many words taken from American Indian languages. To add to the confusion, English is basically a Germanic language that has been forced into a Latin grammatical framework and it does not always fit. Yet, even with all the difficulties involved in learning English, it has become the most widely used language in the world. The fact that it is widely used does not, however, mean that it is always used correctly or accurately, even by many native-born North Americans. |
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Lesson 1 - How do you use DO? To Do or not to DO.
Lesson 2 - I SIT on a chair, or I SET myself on a chair.
Lesson 3 - I HAVE too little. I WANT more. I NEED a lot.
Lesson 4 - THERE they are; THEY'RE on THEIR bicycles.
Lesson 5 - Simple sentences have no extras.
Lesson 6 - Noun+Transitive Verb+Noun Sentences. "John likes Mary."
Lesson 7 - Noun+Intransitive Verb Sentences. "Mary reads."
Lesson 8 - Sentence Word Order. A place for every Part of Speech.
Lesson 9 - Prepositional Phrases. "Write on your paper with a pencil."
Lesson 10 - Noun + Linking Verb + Noun and Noun + Linking Verb + Adjective Sentences. "I am a teacher." "You are intelligent."
Lesson 11 - Common Irregular Verbs: 'sing-sang; bring-brought; go-went, etc.'
Lesson 12 - Words that modify nouns: 'Rubber baby buggy bumpers'
Lesson 13 - Homonyms: 'Too many words to learn.'
Lesson 14 - Adverbs: 'Study these very carefully.'
Lesson 15 - Introduction to Punctuation.
Lesson 16 - End Punctuation . ! ?
Lesson 17 - Commas,,,
Lesson 18 - Colons: Semi-colons; "Quotation Marks"
Lesson 19 - Apostrophe ', [Brackets], Dash --, (Parentheses)
Lesson 20 - Capitalization and Punctuation
Lesson 21 - Connecting with Conjunctions
Lesson 22 - To -ING or not to -ING, that is the question.
Lesson 23 - Which Prepositions with Which Nouns?
Lesson 24 - Lie or Lay, Rise or Raise and other words.
Lesson 25 - Words that are often confused.
Lesson 26 - Plenty of Pronouns
Lesson 27 - Homonyms
Lesson 28 - Common Actions