How to Sound Intelligent In College

1. How to Sound Intelligent In College

2. The No-duh rules “U” “2” “OMG!” “kk” “lol”

3. The Hated Homonyms Their There There Your You’re

4. Homonyms Cont. It’s Its To Too Two

5. Homonyms (sort of) Cont. Know No Now Knew Hour Our Are

7. Tomorrow

8. Unnecessary

9. Definitely

10. Beautiful

12. Alright

13. Anyways

14. Irregardless

15. Flush out

16. Supposably

17. Perservere

19. Making Plurals Cont. Ends in y and there’s a consonant before it, change the y to I and add es: Party – parties candy – candies Proper noun ends in y, just add s: Kennedy family – Kennedys Finley family – Finleys Compound noun has a main noun in it, add the s to the main noun: Father-in-law – fathers- in-law chief of police – chiefs of police Compound noun has no main noun in it, add the s at the end: Follow-ups – follow-ups trade-in – trade

20. Punctuation…?! “_____” (___) ; : ! ? ‘ , ...

21. Tenses http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/english_tenses.htm

22. Titles – To Underline or Italicize? Harry Potter New York Times American Idiot Glee “Wake Me Up When September Ends” “Hickory Dickory Dock” “I Have a Dream” “General Hospital – Todd has ANOTHER Illegitimate Son”

23. Titles, for example… Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone  “The Boy Who Lived”

24. Smart Words! Abhor (to hate) Bigot (narrow-minded, prejudiced) Enfranchise (give voting rights) Hamper (hinder, obstruct) Noxious (harmful; poisonous; lethal) Placid (calm; peaceful) Remuneration (payment for work done) http://www.majortests.com/sat/wordlist.php

26. Be gone, bad habits!