Uncle Henry went home after dinner, and Pa went away to his work in the Big Woods. But for Laura and
Then one day Uncle Henry came riding out of the Big Woods. He had come to help Pa butcher. Ma's
One morning Pa went away before daylight with the horses and wagon, and that night he came home with
Pa skinned the deer carefully and salted and stretched the hides (skins), for he would make soft lea
In the yard (garden) in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Every morning as soon a
At night, when Laura lay awake in the trundle bed (a bed in a box), she listened and could not hear
This summer, I will read to you from a book called The Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingal
A teacher was worried. She was teaching English in a local Hong Kong primary school. In her class wa
An English teacher corrected her student when he wrote:
The word who is generally used for people and not things. Can the word whose, a form of the word who
Usually the word who is only used (as a relative pronoun) for people. Things are usually referred to
Some teachers tell their students that animals should be referred to as "it" and "tha