CROP CIRCLES ARE AWESOME!

1. Indicating either alien life or really bored fratboys, crop circles have confused people for decades.
2. Designing crop circle patterns must be fun for visiting aliens or drunk engineers. *DIAGRAM THIS ONE!!*
3. Contemplating the intricate patterns, wishing-for-aliens folk look for signs of established, intelligent life.
4. The gullible of our world, lacking the cynicism of crop-circle pranksters, wave these events around as some kind of quantified proof.

 

Parts of Speech & Grammar
This is how you find the subject of a sentence.
This is how you find the verb.
This is how you find the direct object.
This is the definition of an indirect object
This is what a predicate nominative is.
This is what an implied subject is.
This is the adjective scale of intensity. 
This is an appositive. 
These are prepositional phrases,
These are notes on the adjective and adverb functions of a prepositional phrase.
This is the passive voice. Fix it, it's all Rule of Five now.
This is a gerund, which is a verbal.
These are infinitives, which are also verbals.
These are participles, which are your third and final form of verbals.   We will start our study of these on Tuesday January 25, 2011

Punctuation
Here is where you find the seven rules for commas. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the links.

Literary Terms
This is the definition of irony
This is the definition of 'schools of criticism.'
This is the definition of satire
This is the definition of plot structure.  
This is the definition of symbolism