Life of Fred Dreams

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

• Brackets, parentheses, and braces
• Three ways to make a break in a sentence (commas, parentheses and dashes)
• How to type an em dash on a computer
• Which words ending in -nger are pronounced with a hard g
• Use of [sic]
• Where to put the question mark(s) in Did he ask, "What time is it"
• What to use instead of parentheses inside of parentheses
• Three uses of a dash
• When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash
• Metaphors
• The only time a period can touch a dash
• When acronyms lose their periods or their capitalization
• Analogy
• Emphatic form of a verb
• Compound subjects
• Compound verbs
• Simple, compound, and complex sentences
• Coordinating and correlative conjunctions
• When to express numbers as words or as numerals
• Conjunctive adverbs
• Figurative language (comparison, degree, and association)
• Two rules for making outlines
• Parallel construction
• Synecdoche
• The difference between metaphor and metonymy
• Allusions in writing
• The four times to use the passive voice
• How to pronounce viz. e.g. and i.e.
• Three keys to good writing
• Unnecessary prepositions
• How to write an essay
• Plagiarism
• Etymology
• Two times you can use sentence fragments
• Three uses of the slash mark (/)
• Why we capitalize the pronoun I
• Ellipsis