Monday, February 21, 2011

Emmett Till, we will not forget you.

1. Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago was murdered in Mississippi in 1955; however, his murderers were acquitted of all charges.
2. He whistled at a white woman, who told her husband about it.
3. The husband and his brother kidnapped Emmett Till from his bedroom, and beat him until his face was unrecognizable. 
4.  What America needs is to keep this story in front of us to prevent its repetition.






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.   



This deals with the subordinate clause.  NEW AS OF February 15

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

This is a definition of THEME in LITERATURE.   NEW as of February 1, 2011  
 

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