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| About the Author | |
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| About This Resource | |
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| Grammar (30) | |
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| And the Part of Speech Is | |
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| Fun with Parts of Speech | |
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| Spreading the Wealth | |
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| Common Nouns Are What We Want! | |
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| Is Thomas Edison a Proper or Common One? | |
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| A Noun and Its Uses | |
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| Nines Are Everywhere | |
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| These Indefinite Pronouns Are Definitely Hidden! | |
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| Finding Five Verbs | |
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| Only Certain Letters Count Here! | |
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| Looking for Those Adjectives | |
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| Animals and Adverbs | |
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| Prepositions and Drinks | |
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| Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandmother's House We Go! | |
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| The Twenty-Five Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Fanboy and W.N. Ben | |
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| Subordinating Conjunctions | |
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| Simple Subjects and the Hidden Sentence | |
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| Constructing Sentences | |
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| Fill and Complete | |
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| Same Word...Different Part of Speech | |
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| Double-Duty Words | |
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| Win, Place, and Show | |
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| Parts of Speech Magic Square | |
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| Grammar Review | |
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| Will the Real Gerald R. Ford Please Stand Up? | |
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| Grammar and Usage Crossword | |
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| Final Test on Conjunctions and Prepositions | |
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| Final Test on Parts of Speech | |
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| Final Test on Phrases and Clauses | |
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| Usage (25) | |
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| Did I Do Good or Did I Do Well? | |
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| Did the Doe Eat the Dough? | |
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| Whom Do You Trust? | |
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| A Magic Square Featuring Words That Are Often Confused | |
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| Does This Story Have a Morale? | |
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| Write the Right Words | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| More Irregular Verbs | |
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| Irregular Verbs and Three Countries | |
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| How Many N's Are There? | |
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| Active and Passive Voices | |
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| Positive...Comparative...Superlative | |
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| Modifying the Modifiers | |
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| Double Negatives | |
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| Capital Letters | |
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| An Abbreviated Journey | |
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| Perfecting Punctuation | |
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| Something's Up with Sixty-Seven | |
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| I Can't Get Nothing Right Today! | |
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| Usage Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Usage Pretest | |
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| Final Test on Usage | |
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| Is It Octopuses or Octopi? | |
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| Making Them All Agree | |
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| Final Test on Agreement | |
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| Vocabulary (32) | |
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| Knowing Those Roots and Prefixes | |
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| Prefixes and Bases | |
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| Prefixes Crossword | |
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| Roots and Prefixes | |
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| Latin and Greek Stems | |
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| Six Common Types of Analogies | |
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| Analyzing Analogies | |
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| An Analogy Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Making Up Your Own Analogies | |
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| Adjectives from A To Z | |
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| Vocabulary and Adjectives | |
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| Selecting the Right Word for the Right Person | |
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| Is It as Simple as A, B, C or D? | |
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| How Many Different Ways Can It Be Done? | |
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| Reading People's Moods | |
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| When Is a Smile a Grin? When Is a Laugh a Guffaw? | |
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| Why Is a Sandal Better than the Other Two? | |
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| Odd One Out | |
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| The Name Game | |
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| Revolutionary Vocabulary | |
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| All in the Family | |
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| He Had Grown the ______ Plants | |
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| Standard Words for Standardized Tests | |
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| Four-Letter Word Scramble | |
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| Onomatopoeia--Words with Some Smash! | |
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| The XYZ Affair | |
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| Putting the Pieces Together | |
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| You Can Do This! | |
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| When One Letter Follows the Other | |
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| What Follows War | |
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| Don't Be Facetious! It's Time to Think About Words! | |
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| Euphemisms | |
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| Mechanics and Wordplay (24) | |
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| Learning from the Grate Depression | |
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| Due Do Dew You Yew Know No Some Sum Homophones? | |
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| Two-Word Definitions for Those Confusing Homophones | |
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| Double Sixes | |
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| Have You Ever Had Dessert in the Desert? | |
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| Words We Often Confuse | |
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| Taking a Computer Apart | |
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| Where Have All the Letters Gone? | |
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| Headline Reads "Did The Bell of the Bawl Die Her Hare?" | |
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| Lucky Seven...Lucky Thirteen Spelling | |
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| Making the Spelling Connection | |
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| Spelling Ease | |
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| An Even Hundred | |
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| Is It I Before E or E Before I? | |
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| Nickels and Dimes, Dollars and Cents | |
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| Filling in the Missing Letters | |
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| Forming Plurals | |
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| Courting Plurals | |
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| Eliminating the Confusion About Possessives and Apostrophes | |
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| Look What's Missing! | |
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| Forming a Sentence with Capital Letters | |
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| British or American? | |
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| The Punctuation Place | |
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| Checking on the 75% Effective Sentence Checker | |
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| Composition & Public Speaking (29) | |
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| Getting the Sentence Straight | |
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| Sentence Directives | |
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| Combining Sentences | |
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| The Correct Order of Things | |
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| Stringing Sentences Together | |
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| Cause and Effect with Some Clauses | |
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| Moving Along with Transitional Words | |
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| Tying Ideas Together | |
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| Brainstorming...The Start of the Writing Process | |
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| Brainstorming into a Composition | |
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| Now That's a Great Idea! | |
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| Making the Essay Easy (Part One) | |
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| Making the Essay Easy (Part Two) | |
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| Supporting Your Ideas | |
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| Some from Here and Some from There | |
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| Creating a Scene | |
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| Creating Dialogue | |
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| A Day in the Life | |
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| Seeing It from Another's Eyes | |
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| Using Your Writer's Toolbox | |
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| Describing a Person | |
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| The Speech's Purpose | |
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| A Checklist for Constructing an Effective Speech | |
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| The Style of the Speech | |
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| The Purpose Behind the Opening Line | |
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| Looking at the Best | |
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| Preparing a Speech | |
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| Choosing and Supporting One Over the Other | |
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| Questions About Your Speech | |
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| Literature (23) | |
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| Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Literary Terms Construction Site | |
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| So Much to Read, So Little Time | |
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| Newspaper and Magazine Terms | |
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| Recognizing Literary Symbols | |
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| What Do You Think These Literary Quotations Mean? | |
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| Let's Get Started | |
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| A Shakespearean Sonnet | |
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| Analyzing a Poem | |
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| Something (or Nothing) in Common | |
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| Extending the Life of the Literary Character | |
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| Judging a Character | |
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| Naming Your Characters | |
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| The Names of Literary Characters | |
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| Famous Literary Characters | |
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| Shaking Up Shakespeare | |
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| Authors of Popular Books for Teens Magic Square | |
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| Authors of Popular Novels for Teenagers Crossword Puzzle | |
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| Finding the Titles of Famous Literary Works | |
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| Famous Women Authors | |
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| Thinking About Books | |
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| Are We What We Read? | |
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| What Kind of Reader Are You? | |
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| The Everyday Use of Our Language (23) | |
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| A Herculean Task | |
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| Review of Real and Fictional People, Places, and Things | |
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| Doctor, Doctor! | |
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| Expressions Using Body Parts | |
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| First Names and Body Parts | |
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| Clicking with Cliches | |
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| Win Brownie Points and Earn Advancement! | |
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| Avoid the Cliches | |
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| Don't Get Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place | |
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| This Is Such Sweet Sorrow | |
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| Shake a Leg and Pour Your Heart Out | |
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| Expressions | |
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| More Expressions | |
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| Putting Proverbs in Their Proper Places | |
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| Words That Have I as Their Second Letter | |
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| Two on the Aisle | |
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| Some Fun with Words | |
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| Animals in the Language | |
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| Why Don't You Look in the Newspaper? | |
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| What's So Special About NTH? | |
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| How These Words Came to Be | |
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| Foreign Words and Phrases | |
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| Sports Headlines | |
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| The Internet Connection | |
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| Answer Keys | |