Language Arts High School : Dreams (Book 4)

The fourth book in this High school Language Arts series.

• Why kids don’t go to jail,
• 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,
• Twenty-six research doctorates and two professional degree doctorates,
• Ruminants and why horses are unlucky,
• Three uses of a dash,
• When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash,
• What not to say to little children,
• 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,
• Good spelling implies high IQ,
• Inverse, converse, and contrapositive,
• Logical equivalence,
• 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.