Life of Fred Language Arts: Begin Teaching

The second book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series covers:

• Ellipsis
• Litotes
• Ninth way to make plurals
• Since can be ambiguous
• The whole point of English
• Consonants as defined by air flow
• Location of a comma changes the meaning
• Eleven ways to make plurals
• Run-on sentences
• Comma splices
• Appositive phrase
• Conjunctions
• Lyrics
• Iambic foot
• Pentameter
• Trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic feet
• Scansion
• Twelfth way to make plurals
• Three ways to fix a comma splice
• Eager vs. anxious
• Not looking at the spelling of a word to decide whether to use "a" or "an"
• Long vowels
• Twenty-two words that don’t contain a, e, i, o, or u
• Idioms
• Affect and effect as verbs
• Affect and effect as nouns
• Nouns defined
• Lie vs. lay
• Transitive and intransitive verbs
• Pronouns defined
• Scare quotes
• Sixteen ways to make plurals
• Numbers—when to use words and when to use numerals
• Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject
• Literary symbolism
• One hundred best first lines from novels
• Dictionary vs. thesaurus
• Conjugation of a verb in three tenses
• The three cases in which a preposition is capitalized in a book title
• The two numbers in English (singular and plural—I and we) and the three numbers in Russian
• Six tenses in English
• Correction: 12 tenses in English
• Unlike all other language arts programs, this one also teaches about:
  • Meter = 39 inches
  • Green's Theorem in Space
  • 14°C = 57°F
  • What the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common
  • 5 cm = 2 inches
  • The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act
  • What some people "know"
  • Making "happy as a clam" make sense
  • Cardinality of a set
  • When to use "du" and when to use "Sie" in German
  • What it means to be a graduate student
  • Should the saying be, "The early worm gets eaten"?
  • Existentialism defined

The answers are included in the textbook. Complete this book and you are ready for Life of Fred Classes.

Life of Fred Begin Teaching 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 Begin Teaching contains 19 lessons and is designed to take approximately one month to complete.