The Verve in our Verbs lesson communicates ways in which we can change weak verbs into dynamic active verbs that add oomph to our sentences. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        24 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

The lesson, Adding Oomph to our Genealogy Writing, focuses on ways in which we can add energy through our verbs to biographies, descriptive writing, conversational writing and analytical writing. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        33 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

The lesson, Passive Power, discusses ways in which we can transform passive sentences into active sentences. It also explains that at times we will want to use passive sentences, then communicates the best ways of doing so. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        27 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

The lesson, All that other verb stuff ...!, covers everything else - that is, person, tense, irregular verbs, "got" words, and auxiliary verbs. It only discusses information in relation to these parts of speech that is useful for genealogists. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        31 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

The lesson, Adventuring with Adverbs, explores our use of adverbs as a means of resuscitating a wishy-washy verb. Otherwise, we can attempt to change the verb-adverb pairing into a stronger verb. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        45 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

Nouns are one of the two most important parts of speech in the English language. In the lesson, Our Noble Nouns, we discuss different types of nouns and the ways in which we can use them to have the greatest impact on our readers. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        29 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

Pronouns, collective nouns, nounification, verbification, eponyms: these are all discussed in this lesson. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        37 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

In the lesson, The Objectives of our Adjectives, we explore the different types of adjectives in our prose,  where they can be positioned, and how we can use them or convert them to stronger verbs or adverbs to best effect. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        36 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes

In the lesson, And Everything Else ..., we explore conjunctions, articles, determiners, prepositions, sequential sentences, numbers and dates. Again, we only discuss information that will be helpful to us as genealogists. 

Lesson type:             Writing

Video duration:        40 minutes

Handout:                    Yes

Writing exercise:      Yes