Life of Fred Language Arts
Life of Fred: Dreams
The fourth book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series covers . . .- Brackets, parentheses, and braces
- Three ways to make a break in a sentence (commas, parentheses and dashes)
- How to type an em dash on a computer
- Which words ending in -nger are pronounced with a hard g
- Use of [sic]
- Where to put the question mark(s) in Did he ask, "What time is it"
- What to use instead of parentheses inside of parentheses
- Three uses of a dash
- When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash
- Metaphors
- The only time a period can touch a dash
- When acronyms lose their periods or their capitalization
- Analogy
- Emphatic form of a verb
- Compound subjects
- Compound verbs
- Simple, compound, and complex sentences
- Coordinating and correlative conjunctions
- When to express numbers as words or as numerals
- Conjunctive adverbs
- Figurative language (comparison, degree, and association)
- Two rules for making outlines
- Parallel construction
- Synecdoche
- The difference between metaphor and metonymy
- Allusions in writing
- The four times to use the passive voice
- How to pronounce viz. e.g. and i.e.
- Three keys to good writing
- Unnecessary prepositions
- How to write an essay
- Plagiarism
- Etymology
- Two times you can use sentence fragments
- Three uses of the slash mark (/)
- Why we capitalize the pronoun I
- Ellipsis
Unlike all other language arts programs, this one also teaches about:
• Why kids don't go to jail
• Twenty-six research doctorates and two professional degree doctorates
• Ruminants and why horses are unlucky
• What not to say to little children
• Good spelling implies high IQ
• Inverse, converse, and contrapositive
• Logical equivalence
The answers are included in the textbook. Complete this book and you have finished High School Language Arts.
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Life of Fred Dreams is a hardcover textbook containing 128 pages. This book is not consumable. All answers are written on separate paper or in a notebook.
Life of Fred Dreams contains 19 lessons and is designed to take approximately one month to complete.