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Basic Grammar Lesson 9: Verb Agreement

by Marie Rackham

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  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 4:06
  • Media: Video/mp4
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  • Posted: 06/26/2009

This lesson is part of the following series:

Package 1: Basic Grammar and Punctuation (45 lessons, $99.00)
Basic English Grammar Course (29 lessons, $64.35)

Basic English Grammar Lesson 9: Agreement Of Verbs

"This log is interesting. This log is also interesting. Both logs are interesting. When I talked about one log, I used the verb is. When I talked about both logs, I used the verb are. This is called agreement of verbs." Standing in the center of a triangle of logs washed up by a recent storm, Marie teaches us about agreement of verbs.

Workbook exercises and answer key are provided with this lesson.

Featured Music: 
Folk Song - The Sailor's Hornpipe

This lesson is excerpted from the Basic Cozy English Grammar course. The full course was created by and is available from Splashes from the River. You can check out this and other courses from Splashes at www.splashesfromtheriver.com.

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About this Author

Marie Rackham
Marie Rackham
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Marie Sophia Rackham was born in 1934 and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She earned degrees in English and Geography from the University of British Columbia, and spent thirteen years studying piano with the Royal Conservatory of Music.

She worked as a public school teacher for thirty-four years, teaching at all levels from kindergarten to grade twelve; and taught piano and theory privately in her own studio for fourteen years.

Over her many years of teaching language arts, Marie developed her own curriculum for teaching basic grammar and punctuation, which was eventually published through the local Teacher's Resource Center and made available to all the schools in...

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02/03/2012
~ Margi

Again the lesson covers a lot of information with very little material for the student to practice. This is not a true basic grammar program and would be better suited for review since it moves so fast.

Nopic_orng
Poor
02/03/2012
~ Margi

Again the lesson covers a lot of information with very little material for the student to practice. This is not a true basic grammar program and would be better suited for review since it moves so fast.

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