Life of Fred Begin Teaching

The second book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series covers . . .

• Ellipsis
• Litotes
• Ninth way to make plurals
• Since can be ambiguous
• The whole point of English
• Consonants as defined by air flow
• Location of a comma changes the meaning
• Eleven ways to make plurals
• Run-on sentences
• Comma splices
• Appositive phrase
• Conjunctions
• Lyrics
• Iambic foot
• Pentameter
• Trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic feet
• Scansion
• Twelfth way to make plurals
• Three ways to fix a comma splice
• Eager vs. anxious
• Not looking at the spelling of a word to decide whether to use a or an
• Long vowels
• Twenty-two words that don't contain a, e, i, o, or u
• Idioms
• Affect and effect as verbs
• Affect and effect as nouns
• Nouns defined
• Lie vs. lay
• Transitive and intransitive verbs
• Pronouns defined
• Scare quotes
• Sixteen ways to make plurals
• Numbers–when to use words and when to use numerals
• Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject
• Literary symbolism
• One hundred best first lines from novels
• Dictionary vs. thesaurus
• Conjugation of a verb in three tenses
• The three cases in which a preposition is capitalized in a book title
• The two numbers in English (singular and plural–I and we) and the three numbers in Russian
• Six tenses in English
• Correction: 12 tenses in English