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Life of Fred - Dreams
Code: LOF_DRE
$24.00
Product Description
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by Dr. Stanley F. Schmidt
The final of four volumes of Life of Fred Language Arts books, Dreams covers the following topics:
Why kids dont go to jail, Brackets, parentheses, and braces, Three ways to make a break in a sentence (commas, parentheses and dashes)
How to type an em dash on a computer, Which words ending in nger are pronounced with a hard g
Use of [sic], Where to put the question mark(s) in Did he ask, What time is it, What to use instead of parentheses inside of parentheses
Twenty-six research doctorates and two professional degree doctorates, Ruminants and why horses are unlucky
Three uses of a dash, When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash, What not to say to little children
Metaphors, The only time a period can touch a dash, When acronyms lose their periods or their capitalization
Analogy, Emphatic form of a verb, Compound subjects, Compound verbs, Simple, compound, and complex sentences
Coordinating and correlative conjunctions, When to express numbers as words or as numerals
Conjunctive adverbs, Figurative language (comparison, degree, and association), Two rules for making outlines, Parallel construction
Synecdoche, The difference between metaphor and metonymy, Allusions in writing, Good spelling implies high IQ, Inverse, converse, and contrapositive
Logical equivalence, The four times to use the passive voice, How to pronounce viz. e.g. and i.e.
Three keys to good writing, Unnecessary prepositions, How to write an essay, Plagiarism, Etymology
Two times you can use sentence fragments, Three uses of the slash mark (/), Why we capitalize the pronoun I, Ellipsis.
Grades 8-12
Hardback
128 pages ISBN: 978-1-937032-17-3
The final of four volumes of Life of Fred Language Arts books, Dreams covers the following topics:
Why kids dont go to jail, Brackets, parentheses, and braces, Three ways to make a break in a sentence (commas, parentheses and dashes)
How to type an em dash on a computer, Which words ending in nger are pronounced with a hard g
Use of [sic], Where to put the question mark(s) in Did he ask, What time is it, What to use instead of parentheses inside of parentheses
Twenty-six research doctorates and two professional degree doctorates, Ruminants and why horses are unlucky
Three uses of a dash, When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash, What not to say to little children
Metaphors, The only time a period can touch a dash, When acronyms lose their periods or their capitalization
Analogy, Emphatic form of a verb, Compound subjects, Compound verbs, Simple, compound, and complex sentences
Coordinating and correlative conjunctions, When to express numbers as words or as numerals
Conjunctive adverbs, Figurative language (comparison, degree, and association), Two rules for making outlines, Parallel construction
Synecdoche, The difference between metaphor and metonymy, Allusions in writing, Good spelling implies high IQ, Inverse, converse, and contrapositive
Logical equivalence, The four times to use the passive voice, How to pronounce viz. e.g. and i.e.
Three keys to good writing, Unnecessary prepositions, How to write an essay, Plagiarism, Etymology
Two times you can use sentence fragments, Three uses of the slash mark (/), Why we capitalize the pronoun I, Ellipsis.
Grades 8-12
Hardback
128 pages ISBN: 978-1-937032-17-3
