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Season 1, Episode 12: Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
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An organ grinder named Paolo Carbonara is searching for his monkey. It turns out the monkey walked out because he could not stand the sign on Paolo's back: ""A gift of dollar bills are greatly welcome."" Henry and Miss Newton convince Paolo to change the sign to ""A gift of dollar bills [b]is[/b] greatly welcome."" It's just what Paolo needs to win back the monkey's favor.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Stocky Mariano: Vigorous Verbs
Episode 2
La Bellicosa: Adverbs
Episode 3
Calling Dr. Kent: Concrete Nouns
Episode 4
The Escaped Convict: Adjectives
Episode 5
Miss Grouse: Avoiding Clichés
Episode 6
The U.F.O.: Avoiding Jargon
Episode 7
The Foolish Suitor: Figures of Speech
Episode 8
The Spice of Life: Variety in Word Order
Episode 9
Fragment Fred: Sentence Fragments
Episode 10
Slick Stagger: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Episode 11
King Kane: Misplaced Modifiers
Episode 12
Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
Episode 13
The Making of Flaws: Active and Passive Voice
Episode 14
The Robber's Guide: Correlative Conjunctions
Episode 15
Rhubarb Power: Pronoun Reference
Episode 16
Henry Chan: Commas with Appositives
Episode 17
Goodbye, Cruel World: Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
Episode 18
Miss Newton's Trial: Commas in a Series
Episode 19
The Bard: Commas with Introductory Adverb Clauses
Episode 20
Peter Berton: Commas with Dates and Addresses
Episode 21
The Comma Kid: Semicolons
Episode 22
Irma Faust: Quotation Marks
Episode 23
Dracula's Defeat: Quotation Marks 2
Episode 24
Comrades X and B: Apostrophes
Episode 25
Captain Kent: Hyphens
Episode 26
Cinderella Newton: Sit, Set / Lay, Lie
Episode 27
Reginald Parse: Differ with, Differ from / Continual, Continuous / Imply, Infer
Episode 28
The Mad Bomber: Is Where, Is When
Episode 29
You Bet Your Life: Already, All Ready / Further, Farther
Episode 30
Lucretia: Like, As