Do Prepositions Have Their Own Acronym?
In a virtual classroom visit, Thomas shows how making up your own acronym for the four kinds of prepositions can help you remember them.
In a virtual classroom visit, Thomas shows how making up your own acronym for the four kinds of prepositions can help you remember them.
What kinds of sentences are there? And what is a sentence, anyway? In this free excerpt from the Basic Cozy Grammar Course, Marie gives an easy-to-follow explanation of the four basic kinds of sentences.
In the Intermediate Cozy Grammar Course, Marie explores the three ways that interrogative pronouns ask questions.
In the Basic Cozy Punctuation Course, Marie gives an easy-to-follow explanation of where punctuation comes from and why it can be so helpful.
In the Basic Cozy Punctuation Course, Marie gives an easy-to-follow explanation of where punctuation comes from and why it can be so helpful.
Thomas explores a common mistake in using the compound personal pronoun myself and shows an easy way to correct it.
Marie gives a cozy review of personal pronouns, with easy-to-understand examples and gives special attention to second person pronouns.
In this excerpt from the Basic Cozy Punctuation Course, Marie Rackham gives a brief history of punctuation and explains what all those “dots, lines, and squiggles” are used for.
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.
We were recently asked about the difference between a correlative conjunction and a conjunction. Take a peek at our answer!
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.