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Barbara Jordan: Speech
“My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution.”
accept/except
accept/except To accept is to receive, and except is to exclude, usually. Both are busy little words skipping around to different meanings, but they never run into each other. To accept is to receive something like […]
Lesson 408 – Mechanics – Punctuation – Apostrophes
Use no apostrophe in personal, relative, or interrogative pronoun possessives. (Words like its, hers, his, ours, yours, theirs, and whose) Example: This book must be yours. Whose is it?Instructions: Supply the apostrophes to make the possessives in the…
Lesson 405 – Mechanics – Punctuation – Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate possession with nouns. Use an apostrophe with each name to show separate ownership. Example: Becky’s and Pam’s dolls were lost.Instructions: Supply the apostrophes and/or “s” to make the possessives in the following senten…
Lesson 404 – Mechanics – Punctuation – Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate possession with nouns. Use the apostrophe with the last name only for joint ownership. Example: Carl and Helen’s cat was stuck up the tree.Instructions: Supply the apostrophes and/or “s” to make the possessives in the foll…
Lesson 403 – Mechanics – Punctuation – Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate possession with nouns. A plural noun that does end in “s” forms the possessive adding just ‘. Write the noun; change no letters; drop no letters; and then simply add ‘. This rule is always the same for each plural noun tha…
Lesson 402 – Mechanics – Punctuation – Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate possession with nouns. A plural noun that does not end in “s” forms the possessive adding ‘s just like the singular noun. Write the noun; change no letters; drop no letters; and then simply add ‘s. This rule is always the …
Lesson 401 – Mechanics – Punctuation – Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate possession with nouns. A singular noun forms the possessive adding ‘s. Write the noun; change no letters; drop no letters; and then simply add ‘s. This rule is always the same for each singular noun. Examples: baby – baby’…
Rosa Parks stood for more than one historic event
Rosa Parks was a not a just a tired woman who would not leave her seat. She stood up for justice before she was arrested on December 1, 1955, for […]
Are US Federal Courts Harder on Native American Offenders? VOA
This is an article from Voice of America (VOA) Learning English. You can read and listen to the story. There is a list of words with definitions from the article […]