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Teach me: political vocabulary from current affairs
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me a set of political vocabulary words drawn from cu
Teach me: common spelling patterns and frequent mistakes
Act as my SS1 English tutor and teach me a few common spelling patterns found in groups of
Noun Clauses As Subject Or Object
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how a noun clause can act as the subject, object, co
Testing A Noun Clause With 'It'
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me the trick of replacing a noun clause with 'it' or 'so
Choosing Whose, Whom Or Which
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me when to use whose, whom and which in an adjectival c
Eight Kinds Of Adverbial Clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor. List and explain the eight kinds of adverbial clauses — time,
Moving An Adverbial Clause For Effect
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me how moving an adverbial clause to the front, middle o
Reduced Clauses: Cutting To A Participle
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me how to reduce a full relative clause like 'the man wh
Fixing A Dangling Participle
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain what a dangling participle is and why 'Walking to sch
Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me to tell a dependent clause from an independent one,
Complex Sentences Versus Simple And Compound
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What Job Does This Noun Phrase Do
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me how to decide whether a noun phrase in a sentence is
Verb Phrases: Auxiliary, Modal, Main Verb
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Break down a verb phrase like 'may have been deceived' into i
Phrasal Verbs: Put Off Versus Put Down
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Adjectival And Adverbial Phrases: Where To Sit
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Concord: Long And Coordinated Subjects
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Concord With Quantifiers And Collective Nouns
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Explain the difference in number between 'each', 'none', 'a n
Active To Passive: What Changes
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Nominalisation: Turning A Verb Into A Noun
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Show me how to nominalise verbs and adjectives, like wise bec
Reversing A Nominalised Sentence
Act as my SS1 English tutor. Teach me how to turn 'the refusal of the loan by the bank' ba