by Language Arts Lady | May 8, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
He passed the test or He past the test? Go passed the house or Go past the house? Passed and past are super confusing–as evidenced in social media every where. It’s not just students who have trouble with this confusing word...
by Language Arts Lady | May 7, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Oh, proper nouns and quotations. Where do I start to explain the myriad of difficulties that students (and adults!) have with these. Am I starting to sound more like Lamenting Lady than Language Lady in the openings to these Punctuation Puzzles? If so, I am sorry!...
by Language Arts Lady | May 6, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
Comma rules are super subjective. As a matter of fact, I tell my upper high schoolers that commas following sentence openers will generally not be the errors in SAT/ACT/PSAT testing sentences. These rules are that subjective! I hear and recognize all of the commas in...
by Language Arts Lady | Apr 20, 2020 | Articles, Punctuation Puzzles
Today’s Punctuation Puzzle brings to light an important comma rule that is not readily known. Commas are super subjective and thus challenging to write with. So whenever we can have a fairly fool-proof trick (or tricks in this week’s puzzle!) up our sleeve to make the...
by Language Arts Lady | Sep 30, 2019 | Articles, Grammar
One of the first things that we teach students who are learning to write sentences is that every sentence must have two things: a subject and a verb. (Technically, I teach that a sentence must have FIVE things—CAVES: Capital, All Makes Sense, Verb, End Mark,...
