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Topic: English grammar

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite possession(s):

Dictionary

Dream job(s):

Teacher

Education:

Elementary school, None

Favorite board game(s):

Scrabble

Favorite activity(s):

Writing stories, Taking IQ tests

Favorite food(s):

Spanish

Favorite book(s):

"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster
"The McGuffey Readers" by William Holmes McGuffey
Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Interest(s):

English, Latin, French

Favorite destination(s):

Japan, Spain

Worst habit(s):

Swearing

Favorite quote(s):

"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Grammar instruction is consistent with the class/individual needs and intensive vocabulary instruction is geared for the college-bound student who is preparing for both the SAT and the Comprehensive English Regents Exam.

Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Native speakers of English have an easier time with the Romance and Germanic languages because their grammars, syntax, and vocabulary are relatively familiar.
English grammars written in English and English grammars written in Latin by native speakers.
The language of England evolves into Middle English with an English syntax and grammar and a heavily French vocabulary.

Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

This course is designed for people who have a reasonable command of the English language, but have basic usage problems such as consistent errors in grammar, syntax, punctuation, and spelling or lack confidence in their ability to communicate using the written word.
English Grammar KD PC Download: Parts of Speech level A, free demo of this game The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation now available online as a valuable resource!
Business English (ABUT 1006) This course focuses on correct English usage in a business environment and provides a comprehensive review of grammar, punctuation, and style as well as business spelling and vocabulary development.

Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

English Grammar offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing English syntax through integrating insights from traditional, structural, and transformational theories.

Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Lesson Plans English Grammar ESL Penmanship Creative Writing Phonics Poetry Reading/ Comprehension Literature Spelling Library Vocabulary Other The following books contain worksheets that are listed by area of study such as "Fractions" which makes it easy to find what you need to work on.
ENGLISH II - The sophomore English course includes continued formal vocabulary study, continued grammar study, development of composition skills, the sophomore research paper, and genre study in poetry and short fiction.

Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

This is an intensive study of the fundamentals of prescriptive grammar and its application in writing for English and education majors, as well as for other students who wish to increase their knowledge of language usage.
Examining English grammar and usage as they reflect different theories about language description and applying this knowledge in the ESL classroom.

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