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Standard Deviants School: Agreeing With Grammar (English Grammar Program 5)

24 minutes 35 seconds

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The Standard Deviants discuss how a word that usually works as one part of speech can put on a disguise and pretend to be another part of speech, including nouns as verbs and verbs as nouns. Then it's time to tackle proper agreement in grammar, including subject/verb agreement and proper agreement between nouns and articles. Part of the "Standard Deviants School: English Grammar" series.

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Young woman with dark hair smiles at camera. 3 dimensional shapes in various colors are stacked behind her. Caption. Now let's find out what this "grammar" word means.
Standard Deviants School: English Grammar
Episode 1
24 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup dutch angle of a middle aged man with his mouth open in mid-speech. Caption. Let's say it again, conjugating!
Standard Deviants School: English Grammar
Episode 2
24 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young woman smiles at camera and parts her lips in smile as she speaks. Torn parchment is superimposed at right and reads, "Verbs show action or state of being. Shape into noun or adjective. Verbals." Caption. A verb that functions like another part of speech.
Standard Deviants School: English Grammar
Episode 3
24 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young woman smiles at camera with arms bent at sides and palms facing up. Title card reads, "Put parts of speech into action by constructing sentences." Caption. By constructing sentences.
Standard Deviants School: English Grammar
Episode 4
24 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Title card on gold background reads, "The parts of speech. Pronoun, a little word that takes the place of nouns in a sentence. It." Caption. I, you, he, she, it.
Standard Deviants School: English Grammar
Episode 5
24 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Medium view of young woman with blond hair smiling at camera and as she speaks. Caption. Ah, yes, our old friends, sentence fragments.
Standard Deviants School: English Grammar
Episode 6
24 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12