In this free video excerpt from the conclusion to the Basic Cozy Essay Course, Marie Rackham talks about the difference between the format of an essay and the style of an essay, and also discusses different lengths of essays.
Thomas shares a verse from his new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, published by Beacon Press.
Here’s a trick for identifying indirect objects and a way to turn them into prepositional phrases, like magic!
Jay asks, “Is it correct to say ‘two fewer people’ or ‘two less people’? Here’s a trick for answering this question easily!
In the Intermediate Cozy Grammar Course, Marie explores the inflection of nouns for case, with simple examples of the objective or accusative case of nouns.
In this excerpt from Lesson 4 the Basic Cozy Essay Course, Marie Rackham explains what an expository essay is and shows us an example first paragraph.
Appositives, appositive phrases, and nouns in apposition: meaning, uses, and a trick from Thomas to remember these seemingly confusing terms.
In the Intermediate Cozy Grammar Course, Marie gives an introduction to grammatical case and describes the inflection of nouns for the subjective or nominative case.
In this excerpt from the Basic Cozy Grammar Course, Marie explains five different kinds of adverbs: adverbs of time, adverbs of place, adverbs of manner, adverbs of degree, and adverbs of cause or reason.
Thomas shares a trick for finding the subjective complement of copula verbs such as is, are, and am. Simply answer the question WHAT.
Kadyn M. asks, “What is the difference between an adjective and a predicate adjective?” Here’s a simple and easy way to tell them apart.
In the Intermediate Cozy Grammar Course, Marie gives a comprehensive set of examples for how singular nouns are inflected for the plural, with spelling tips.
In this free excerpt from The Basic Cozy Grammar Course, Marie introduces the concept of a noun and gives some concrete and memorable examples of three basic kinds of nouns.
One of the topics Marie was most intent on helping her students understand was how to write an essay. As she explains in the introduction to The Basic Cozy Essay Course, if we don’t know how to write an essay, it can be a fearsome assignment. But when we learn how, it can open innumerable doors—as it did for Marie herself.
In the Basic Cozy Grammar Course, Marie gives a handy trick for remembering what a transitive verb is: TRANSITive verbs are like TRANSIT systems. Take a peek to see why!
In the Basic Cozy Grammar Course, Marie gives a simple introduction to tenses. Tense is simply a change in the form of a verb to show whether the time being discussed is the past, present, or future.