This video on sentence types discusses the subject-verb relationship and active versus passive construction. It also specifies the four sentence patterns: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Moreover, the video explains how to format elements of an MLA paper by adjusting settings in the paragraph dialogue box.
Recently, US Represented caught up with Colorado Springs author Lucy Bell and illustrator Linda Martin to discuss their collaboration on a newly published children’s book. Molly and the Cat Who Stole Her Tongue is a ten-chapter, 10,000-word adventure story for six to ten-year-olds (though any age would find it enjoyable). It has 22 illustrations that bring
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Early one morning as she rose to take a shower, he told her she needed to move out. To his surprise, she did so that very day. He figured she’d soon become lonely and scared and beg to come home. Instead, she grew more self-assured and started doing things that made her happy. At first,
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From childhood, Zoey Henderson lived for invention. When she was six years old, for instance, she spent much of the summer in her back yard making a gigantic American flag out of gum wrappers. Mrs. Evans, the crotchety woman next door, would come outside and water her own back yard just so she could scowl
On a warm autumn afternoon a few years ago, a catenary of events forever shaped my impression of the new Spain. I had just settled into a sunny little room in a pension only a stone’s throw from the Parliament in the heart of downtown Madrid, and without a moment to lose, I asked Miguel,
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A few critics have faulted the Netflix drama House of Cards for inaccurately portraying certain aspects of the American political process. This is like complaining that Shakespeare’s Richard III doesn’t sufficiently resemble his historical model. One of Art’s functions is to express truth in ways that more literal mediums can’t. In fact, Art often predicts
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