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Grammar Song: How Pronouns Replace Nouns
Review how pronouns replace nouns with this grammar rap song. This music video gives examples of nouns replaced by singular subject pronouns, plural subject pronouns, singular object pronouns, plural…Grammar Song: The Function of Coordinating and Correlative Conjunctions
Learn about the function of coordinating and correlative conjunctions with this catchy grammar song.Grammar Song: When to Use Capital Letters
This fun grammar song demonstrates when we use capital letters: to start sentences, for the first letter of proper names, and for titles and abbreviations.locative
(Encyclopedia) locativelocativelŏkˈətĭv [key] [Lat.,=placing], in the grammar of certain languages (e.g., Sanskrit), the case referring to location. Nouns in this case are often translatable into…Chesterfield
(Encyclopedia) Chesterfield, city and district, Derbyshire, central England. An important industrial center, Chesterfield produces mining equipment,…Florio, John
(Encyclopedia) Florio, JohnFlorio, Johnflôˈrēō [key], 1553?–1625, English author, b. London of Italian parentage. Educated at Oxford, Florio served in various capacities at the court of James I. He…inflection
(Encyclopedia) inflection, in grammar. In many languages, words or parts of words are arranged in formally similar sets consisting of a root, or base, and various affixes. Thus walking, walks, walker…Macclesfield
(Encyclopedia) MacclesfieldMacclesfieldmăkˈəlzfēld [key], town (1991 pop. 46,832), Cheshire East, W England. Silk manufacture, of which Macclesfield is the principal center in England, was introduced…Sibawaihi
(Encyclopedia) SibawaihiSibawaihisēbäwīhē [key], c.760–793, Persian grammarian, considered the most important Arabic grammarian. His book al-Kitah fi'l nahwi is the first complete Arabic grammar,…Barnes, William
(Encyclopedia) Barnes, William, 1801–86, English poet and philologist. After a career as a schoolmaster, he took holy orders in 1847. He is best known for his poems in Dorset dialect, which began to…