8 lessons on building sentences — complete vs fragment vs run-on, the four structures, pronoun and subject–verb agreement, verb types and verbals, modifiers, clauses and combining, tense consistency and parallel structure. Each lesson has theory, Mimi's tips, three quizzes and a rapid-fire round.
The 8 word families at a glance.
Person, place, thing, idea — and 13 sub-types.
Personal, possessive, reflexive & more.
Dynamic, stative, auxiliary, modal & phrasal.
12 types of words that describe nouns.
Manner, time, place, frequency, degree.
Coordinating, correlative, subordinating.
Time, place, direction & relationship.
Wow! Oh! Ouch! — emotional bursts.
Independent, dependent & relative clauses.
Noun, verb, adverb & prepositional phrases.
Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.
Simple, complete, compound subjects.
Simple, complete, compound predicates.
Direct, indirect & object of preposition.
Subject, object & adverbial complements.
Sentences, I, names, days, places, titles, nationalities — every rule for capitals.
Full stop, question mark, exclamation mark — and statement, question, command, exclamation.
Lists, dates & addresses, direct address, introductory words and interjections.
Compound & complex sentences, interrupters, coordinate adjectives, non-restrictive clauses — and the comma splice.
it's vs its, the boy's vs the boys', children's, Ravi and Priya's — the apostrophe's two jobs.
; joins two sentences and sorts long lists; : introduces a list, a quote or an explanation.
well-known vs well known, the dash for drama, … for trailing off, (brackets) for asides.
“Wait,” she said. — speech marks, commas and capitals in dialogue; quoting; italics vs quotes for titles.
The complete-sentence test, spotting fragments and run-ons, and the four ways to fix them.
Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex; complete vs simple subject; compound subjects and predicates.
Antecedents, number and person shifts, vague “it/they”, who/whom/whose, Ravi and I vs me, than/as.
Action, linking and helping verbs; transitive vs intransitive; participles, gerunds and infinitives.
Phrases in between, compound subjects, either/or, indefinite pronouns, collective nouns, there is/are, inverted sentences.
Adjective or adverb? good/well, bad/badly, comparatives with more/most, adjective order, misplaced and dangling modifiers.
Appositives, relative clauses, correlative conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs — turning choppy sentences into smooth ones.
No unnecessary tense shifts, parallel lists and pairs, double negatives, and active vs passive choices.
All 12 tenses — Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Cont.
Flip who does what to whom.
Report what was said.
a, an, the & the zero article.
21 lessons: categories, comparisons, tools.
can, could, must, should — the power words.