This is the second book in the High school Language Arts series and cover all this and more:
- Ellipsis, Litotes, Meter = 39 inches,
- Ninth way to make plurals,
- Since can be ambiguous,
- The whole point of English,
- Green’s Theorem in Space,
- Consonants as defined by air flow,
- Location of a comma changes the meaning,
- 14ºC = 57ºF,
- What the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common,
- Eleven ways to make plurals,
- 5 cm = 2 inches,
- 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,
- The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act,
- Pronouns defined,
- What some people “know,”
- Making “happy as a clam” make sense,
- Scare quotes,
- Sixteen ways to make plurals,
- Cardinality of a set,
- Numbers—when to use words and when to use numerals,
- Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject,
- When to use du and when to use Sie in German,
- Literary symbolism,
- One hundred best first lines from novels,
- What is means to be a graduate student,
- Should the saying be, “The early worm gets eaten”?
- Dictionary vs. thesaurus,
- Conjugation of a verb in three tenses,
- Existentialism defined,
- 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.
