My mind was blown by the fact that Kristine, who is FOUR YEARS OLD, had instantaneously groked that the colors, all of them, were some kind of system.
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"Okay, first, I hate to be a Marian the Librarian, but you don’t feel badly, you feel bad." ~John Oliver
What I mostly love to show my students is how the suffix <-ly> actually works in English. A lot of people believe – falsely – that any word that ends in an <-ly> suffix is an adverb. It's not. Here's the truth.
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10th Grader: “A run-on sentence is a sentence without a period, and a sentence fragment is…is a…I have no idea.” [Looks defeated, ashamed.] Me: “So what makes a sentence a sentence?” 10th Grader: “I honestly have no idea.” Me: "You're in excellent company. Most adults I ask also cannot tell me."