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Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Elements of Grammar

• What Are Nouns? Definition, Types & Examples
• Singular & Plural Nouns: Definitions, Rules & Examples
• What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
• What Are Collective Nouns?
• What Are Pronouns? Types, Examples & Definition
• Pronouns: Relative, Reflexive, Interrogative & Possessive
• Using Nouns as the Subject of a Sentence: Grammar Rules & Examples
• Possessive Pronouns & Contractions: Definition & Examples
• What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
• Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
• Personal Pronouns and Antecedents: Number Agreement
• Auxiliary Verbs: Definitions, Functions & Examples
• Use of Modal Verbs
• Modal Auxiliary Verb
• Verb Forms: Participles & Infinitives
• Irregular Verbs with Examples
• Adjectives
• Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
• Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
• Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
• What Are Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Modifiers?
• Active and Passive Voice
• What are Predicates? Definition and Examples
• Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
• Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
• Correct Use of Preposition
• Correct Use of Verbs
• Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples

Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar

• Selecting Subject & Object Pronouns: Rules & Examples
• Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
• Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
• Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
• Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
• Conjunction vs. Preposition
• Who, Whom, Whose & Who's
• Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
• Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
• Degree of Comparison
• Parts of Speech

Comprehensive English: Usage

• Identifying SubjectVerb Agreement Errors
• Identifying Errors of Verb Tense
• Identifying Errors of Singular and Plural Pronouns

Comprehensive English: Organization

• Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
• Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
• How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
• How to Write an Essay
• Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types

Comprehensive English: Essay Basics: Types of Essay

• Narrative Essay: Definition, Examples & Characteristics
• Descriptive Essay: Definition, Examples & Characteristics
• Informative Essay: Definition, Examples & Structure
• Components of Writing a Persuasive Essay
• Evaluative Essay: Examples, Format & Characteristics

Comprehensive English: Essay Basics: Writing an Essay

• How to Focus Your Essay and Respond to the Essay Prompt
• How to Engage Readers by Picking and Developing an Appeal
• How to Write With Good Diction to Develop Style, Tone & PointofView
• How to Write Logical Sentences and Avoid Faulty Comparisons
• Sentence Clarity: How to Write Clear Sentences
• How to Structure Sentences in an Essay
• Varied Sentence Structure in Writing
• How to Write Better by Improving Your Sentence Structure
• How to Write a Great Argument
• Using Rhetorical Skills to Write Better Essays
• How Word Choice and Language Set the Tone of Your Essay
• Logos, Ethos and Pathos: Ways to Appeal to an Audience in Essays
• How to Use Sources to Write Essays and Evaluate Evidence
• Evaluating Reasoning in an Essay or Article
• How Authors Appeal to a Target Audience
• Determining Point of View & Purpose in Informational Texts

Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics

• Capitalization Rules in Writing
• Punctuation: Using Colons, Semicolons & Periods
• Commas: Correct Usage & Basic Rules
• Comma Usage: Avoid Confusion in Clauses & Contrasting Sentence Parts
• Commonly Confused Words in English
• Question Mark: Definition & Use
• Exclamation Mark: Use & Meaning
• Apostrophe: Use & Examples
• Parentheses and Dashes: Correct Usage
• Using Hyphens, Brackets, Ellipses & Quotation Marks
• Spelling: Words That Sound Alike (Homonyms & Homophones)

Comprehensive English: The Writing Process: Development & Planning

• Developing the Essay Topic
• Tone, Audience & Purpose in Essays
• What Is Brainstorming?
• Techniques for Brainstorming Great Ideas
• What is a Thesis Statement?
• How to Write a Thesis Statement
• How to Write an Outline
• Basic Essay Structure: The FiveParagraph Essay

Comprehensive English: The Writing Process: Writing & Structuring an Essay

• Essay Introduction: Write a Thesis and Capture Your Audience
• How to Write a Strong Essay Body
• How to Write and Use Transition Sentences
• How To Write Effective Conclusions: Importance and Elements
• How to Structure an Argument in Your Essay
• How to Write a Strong Personal Essay
• How to Write a Persuasive Essay and Use Several Sources
• Writing the Rough Draft of an Essay
• How to write a Notice

Comprehensive English: The Writing Process: Revision & Improving Your Essay

• How to Write Well: What Makes Writing Good?
• How to Structure Paragraphs in an Essay
• How to Write with Idioms or Phrasal Verbs
• How to Write a Great Essay Quickly
• Practicing Essay Writing to Get Better at Writing
• How to Proofread an Essay for Spelling and Grammar

Comprehensive English: Interpreting Theme & Meaning

• Glossary of Literary Terms: Poetry
• What is Inference? How to Infer Intended Meaning
• Constructing Meaning with Context Clues, Prior Knowledge & Word Structure
• What Are Connotation and Denotation? Definitions & Examples
• What is Structure in Writing and How Does it Affect Meaning?
• What Are Literary Motifs? Definition & Examples
• Tone vsMood: Interpreting Meaning In Prose
• Symbolism & Imagery in Literature: Definitions & Examples
• Interpreting Literary Meaning: How to Use Text to Guide Your Interpretation
• How to Answer Multiple Choice Questions About Literature: TestTaking Strategies

Comprehensive English: Figurative Language

• What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
• Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
• Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
• Types of Irony: Examples & Definitions
• Cliches, Paradoxes & Equivocations: Definitions & Examples
• Personification and Apostrophe: Differences & Examples
• What is Foreshadowing? Types, Examples & Definitions
• Similes in Literature: Definition and Examples

Comprehensive English: Examples of Literary Analysis

• Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Summary and Analysis
• Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle: Summary and Analysis
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poem Analysis
• Poe's The Cask of Amontillado: Summary and Analysis
• Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven: Summary and Analysis
• Herman Melville: Moby Dick Summary and Analysis
• The Scarlet Letter: Summary and Analysis of an Allegory
• Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience: Summary and Analysis
• Emily Dickinson: Poems and Poetry Analysis
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Themes and Analysis
• The Great Gatsby: Summary, Themes, Symbols, and Character
• Of Mice and Men: Summary and Analysis of Steinbeck's Style
• Langston Hughes & the Harlem Renaissance: Poems of the Jazz Age

Comprehensive English: Prominent Authors & Major Works

• World Literature: Major Authors & Works
• The Iliad: Greek Epic
• The Odyssey: Greek Epic
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Introduction to Chaucer: Middle English and the Canterbury Tales
• Introduction to Shakespeare: Life and Works
• Introduction to Charles Dickens: Works, Style, and Influence
• Jane Austen: Biography and Major Novels
• Introduction to Alfred Lord Tennyson: Life and Major Poetic Works
• Introduction to John Milton: Life and Major Poems
• Introduction to George Eliot: Life and Major Works
• Introduction to James Joyce: Life and Evolution of Style
• Introduction to Virginia Woolf: Life and Works
• Ernest Hemingway: Biography, Works, and Style
• William Faulkner: Biography, Books, and Style
• Kate Chopin: Biography, Works, and Style
• Mark Twain: Biography, Works, and Style as a Regionalist Writer

Comprehensive English: Historical, Cultural & Critical Contexts of Literature

• Overview of Literary Periods and Movements: A Historical Crash Course
• Introduction to Literary Theory: Major Critics and Movements
• Introduction to Medieval Literature: Old English, Middle English, and Historical Context
• Introduction to Renaissance Literature: Characterizing Authors and Works
• Introduction to th and thCentury Literature: Major Authors and Works
• Introduction to Romantic Poetry: Overview of Authors and Works
• Introduction to Romantic Prose: Overview of Authors and Works
• Introduction to Victorian Literature: Overview of Themes, Style, and Authors
• Naturalism in Literature: Authors and Characteristics
• Overview of Literary Modernism: Authors, Context, and Style
• The Lost Generation: Expatriate Writers of the 2th Century
• The Beat Generation: Characteristics of Beat Poetry
• Contemporary American Literature: Authors and Major Works

Comprehensive English: Reading Strategies & Literary Analysis

• Reading Strategies Using Visualization
• Close Reading vsBig Picture Reading Strategies
• How to Analyze a Literary Passage: A StepbyStep Guide
• Glossary of Literary Terms: Prose
• Methods of Characterization in Literature
• Point of View in Fiction: First Person, Third Person & More
• Understanding Tone and Mood in a Reading Passage
• Plot Analysis: Example & Overview
• How Dialogue Reveals Aspects of a Character
• Practice Analyzing Dialogue
• How to Paraphrase: Definition & Examples
• Comparing Texts to Personal Experience
• Drawing Conclusions from a Reading Selection

Comprehensive English: Interpreting Meaning in Literature

• Literal Language: Definition & Examples
• Recognizing Biases, Assumptions & Stereotypes in Written Works
• Paralanguage: Definition & Examples

Comprehensive English: Reading & Editing Essays

• Get the Gist of an Essay & Improve Reading Comprehension
• How to Use Context to Determine the Meaning of Words
• Peer Editing: How to Edit Essays By Other Writers

Comprehensive English: Writing to a Specific Audience

• Writing for Your Audience
• How to Determine the Best Audience or Readers for an Essay
• How to Determine if Your Essay Addresses its Audience

Comprehensive English: Grammar, Mechanics & Usage

• Independent & Dependent Clauses: Subordination & Coordination
• Sentence Fragments, Comma Splices and Runon Sentences
• Parallelism: How to Write and Identify Parallel Sentences
• What Are Personal Pronouns?
• How to Identify the Subject of a Sentence
• Verb Tense & SubjectVerb Agreement
• SubjectVerb Agreement: Using Uncommon Singular and Plural Nouns and Pronouns
• Sentence Structure: Identify and Avoid 'Mixed Structure' Sentences
• Types of Sentences: Simple, Compound & Complex

Comprehensive English: Proofreading & Revising an Essay

• Writing Revision: How to Fix Mistakes in Your Writing
• How to Edit and Improve Essay Content

Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies

• How to Create a Writing Portfolio
• Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
• Standard Score: Definition & Examples
• How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
• Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
• Forms of Assessment
• Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity

Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking

• Types of Listening: Pseudo, Appreciative, Empathetic, Comprehensive & Critical
• Barriers to Effective Listening in Groups
• Four Types of Speech Delivery: Impromptu, Extemporaneous, Manuscript & Memorized
• Types of Communication: Formal, Informal, Grapevine, Verbal & NonVerbal
• How to Set the Tone for Your PowerPoint Presentation
• Body Language in Nonverbal Communication: Importance, Types & Examples

Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills

• Phonological Development in Children: Stages & Overview
• Phoneme: Definition, Segmentation & Examples
• The Alphabetic Principle & Learning to Read
• What Is Semantics? Definition & Examples
• Using Affixes and Roots to Find the Meaning of Words
• High Frequency Words: Definition & Examples
• What Are Synonyms & Antonyms? Definition & Examples
• Understanding Words By Their Relationships
• What is an Idiom? Definition & Examples
• Strategies for Acquiring and Using New Vocabulary

Comprehensive English: Letter and Article Writings

• Formal Letter Writing
• Informal Letter Writing
• Application Letter writing
• CVI_Article Writing

English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle

• Who Did Patrick’s Homework
• How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
• Taro's Reward
• An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
• A Different Kind of School
• Who I Am
• Fair Play
• A Game of Chance
• Desert Animals
• The Banyan Tree

English: Class 6 : Poem

• The Kite
• The Quarrel
• Beauty
• Where Do All the Teachers Go?
• The Wonderful Words
• Vocation
• What If

English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun

• A Tale of Two Birds
• The Friendly Mongoose
• The Shepherd’s Treasure
• The Old Clock Shop
• Tansen
• The Monkey and the Crocodile
• The Wonder Called Sleep
• A Pact with the Sun
• What Happened to the Reptiles
• A Strange Wrestling Match

English: Class 7 : Honeycomb

• Three Questions
• A Gift of Chappals
• Gopal and the Hilsa Fish
• The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom
• Quality
• Expert Detectives
• The Invention of Vita Wonk
• Fire: Friend and Foe
• A Bicycle in Good Repair
• The Story of Cricket

English: Class 7: Alien Hand

• The Tiny Teacher
• Bringing Up Kari
• The Desert
• The Cop and the Anthem
• Golu Grows a Nose
• I Want Something in a Cage
• Chandni
• The Bear Story
• A Tiger in the House
• An Alien Hand

English: Class 7: Poem

• The Squirrel
• The Rebel
• The Shed
• Chivvy
• Trees
• Mystery of the Talking Fan
• Dad and the Cat and the Tree
• Meadow Surprises
• Garden Snake

English: Class 8: Honey Dew

• The Best Christmas Present in the World
• The Tsunami
• Glimpses of the Past
• Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
• The Summit Within
• This is Jody’s Fawn
• A Visit to Cambridge
• A Short Monsoon Diary
• The Great Stone Face I
• The Great Stone Face II

English: Class 8: Poem

• The Ant and the Cricket
• Geography Lesson
• Macavity: The Mystery Cat
• The Last Bargain
• The School Boy
• The Duck and the Kangaroo
• When I set out for Lyonnesse
• On the Grasshopper and Cricket

English: Class 8: It so happened

• How The Camel Got His Hump
• Children At Work
• The Selfish Giant
• The Treasure Within
• Princess September
• The Fight
• The Open Window
• Jalebis
• The Comet — I
• The Comet — II
• Ancient Education System of India

English: Class 9: Beehive

• The Fun They Had
• The Sound of Music
• The Little Girl
• A Truly Beautiful Mind
• The Snake and the Mirror
• My Childhood
• Packing
• Reach for the Top
• The Bond of Love
• If I were You
• Kathmandu

English: Class 9: Poem

• The Road Not Taken
• Wind
• Rain on the Roof
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• A Legend of the Northland
• No Men Are Foreign
• The Duck and the Kangaroo
• On Killing a Tree

English: Class 9: Moments

• The Lost Child
• The Adventures of Toto
• Iswaran the Storyteller
• In the Kingdom of Fools
• The Happy Prince
• Weathering the Storm in Ersama
• The Last Leaf
• A House Is Not a Home
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Beggar

English: Class 10: First Flight

• A Letter to God
• Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
• Two Stories about Flying
• From the Diary of Anne Frank
• The Hundred Dresses - I
• The Hundred Dresses - II
• Glimpses of India
• Mijbil the Otter
• Madam Rides the Bus
• The Sermon at Banaras
• The Proposal

English: Class 10: Poem

• Dust of Snow
• Fire and Ice
• A Tiger in the Zoo
• How to Tell Wild Animals
• The Ball Poem
• Amanda
• Animals
• The Trees
• Fog
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon
• For Anne Gregory

English: Class 10: Main Course

• Education
• Science
• Environment
• Travel and Tourism
• National Integration

English: Class 10: Foot prints

• A Triumph of Surgery
• The Thief’s Story
• The Midnight Visitor
• A Question of Trust
• Footprints without Feet
• The Making of a Scientist
• The Necklace
• The Hack Driver
• Bholi
• The Book that Saved the Earth

English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose

• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• MrsPackletide’s Tiger
• The Letter
• A Shady Plot
• Patol Babu, Film Star
• Virtually True

English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry

• The Frog and the Nightingale
• The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
• Snake
• Ozymandias
• Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments

English: Class 11:Hornbill

• The Portrait of a Lady
• We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
• Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
• Landscape of the Soul
• The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
• The Browning Version
• The Adventure
• Silk Road

English: Class 11: Supplementary

• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
• The Address
• Ranga’s Marriage
• Albert Einstein at School
• Mother’s Day
• The Ghat of the Only World
• Birth
• The Tale of Melon City

English: Class 11: Poem

• The Peacock
• Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
• Coming
• Telephone Conversation
• The World is too Much With Us
• Mother Tongue
• Hawk Roosting
• For Elkana
• Refugee Blues
• Felling of the Banyan Tree
• Ode to a Nightingale
• 2Ajamil and the Tigers

English: Class 11: Essay

• My Three Passions
• Patterns of Creativity
• Tribal Verse
• What is a Good Book?
• The Story
• Bridges

English: Class 12: Prose

• The Last Lesson
• Lost Spring
• Deep Water
• The Rattrap
• Indigo
• Poets and Pancakes
• The Interview
• Going Places

English: Class 12: Poetry

• My Mother at SixtySix
• Keeping Quiet
• A Thing of Beauty
• A Roadside Stand
• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

English: Class 12: Supplementary

• The Third Level
• The Tiger King
• Journey to the end of the Earth
• The Enemy
• On the Face of It
• Memories of Childhood
• The Cutting of My Long Hair
• We Too Are Human Beings