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Henry submits a poorly-written review of an opera. It lacks adverbs, implores Morton. But if the editor's remarks are bad enough for Henry, he must also deal with opera singer La Bellicosa, for it was her nephew's opera that Henry criticized.

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