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Plural Nouns and Passed-Past Confusion With Cinderella (Punctuation Puzzle)

Plural Nouns and Passed-Past Confusion With Cinderella (Punctuation Puzzle)

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...
Proper Nouns and Quotations with Pinocchio (Punctuation Puzzle)

Proper Nouns and Quotations with Pinocchio (Punctuation Puzzle)

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!...
Prepositional Phrases and Commas with Dumbo (Punctuation Puzzle)

Prepositional Phrases and Commas with Dumbo (Punctuation Puzzle)

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...
Commas with Interjections and Adjectives with Dumbo (Punctuation Puzzle)

Commas with Interjections and Adjectives with Dumbo (Punctuation Puzzle)

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...
Simplify Verb Teaching By Starting With These Three Verbs (Song Included!)

Simplify Verb Teaching By Starting With These Three Verbs (Song Included!)

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,...

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