What drives a sentence? Verbs are the engine of every sentence. They show action or help tell us what someone or something is doing. But identifying a verb isn't always as simple as spotting a word that ends in -ed or -ing. Take these words: sw...
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A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. OK, Karen. We get it. 😄 I didn't have any huge epiphanies about nouns this week. I mean, after Tuesday's Tip, what else is there to say? But after a rough week, something else came to mind. It...
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I think there's a common myth that teaching and learning nouns is easy. After all, we've all heard the definition: a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. It sounds simple enough. But sometimes it's not that simple. I can't te...
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"Mother, may I?" Remember that game? You had to ask permission to move. Just to move! And if you didn't get permission, you had to stay put. Last week I shared a tad about wanting to write again, to do something that used to light me...
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I was cooking dinner the other night when I decided to read the instructions on the Bubba Burgers box. I don't know what prompted me to do that because, well, who needs to read instructions on how to cook frozen burgers? You put them on the pan...
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I had a blog once. I used to write all the time. It was a long time ago when I was just finding my faith, and I wanted to talk about it. Then a voice entered in my head that said, "Who are you? You aren't an authority on these things. You r...
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