Third-Person Perspective

[ad name=”Adsense”] Third-Person: If you are talking about yourself….”I am crazy.”….you are speaking in the first-person.  If you are talking to somebody…”You are crazier.”….this is the second person.  If you are talking about George across the street….”He is crazier than … Continue reading

Pronouns

[ad name=”Adsense”] Pronouns: You should know that a noun is a person, place, or thing.  Pronouns are words that can be substituted for nouns when we get sick and tired of referring to the thing we’re talking about.  Consider the … Continue reading

Articles

[ad name=”Adsense”] Articles: In English, we have words that work with nouns to suggest some more information about the noun.  A, an, and the are all articles.  If I tell you about the man from last night, I am talking … Continue reading

Adverbs

[ad name=”Adsense”] Adverbs: Just like adjectives describe nouns, adverbs describe verbs.  So if you are running slowly, you can see that “slowly” is an adverb…it describes the manner in which you are running.  If you still don’t know what an … Continue reading

Adjectives

[ad name=”Adsense”] Adjectives: Adjectives describe nouns.  It’s as simple as that.  Really….  This section of the post is pointless, useless, boring, and obvious.  If you don’t  know where the adjectives are in this last sentence, type “adjectives” into Google and … Continue reading

Overthinking Roman Numerals

[ad name=”Adsense”] Many, many books contain a preface, prologue, or introductory material of some sort.  The pages associated with these sections are often numbered with Roman numerals, frequently lower case (ii, viii, etc).  These lower-case numerals were never used in … Continue reading