ABCs of English Grammar

Master English with Confidence: Your Grammar Journey Starts Here!

ABCs of English Grammar

Master English with Confidence: Your Grammar Journey Starts Here!

Unlock the power of flawless communication with our ABCs of English Grammar course. Imagine elevating your writing to new heights where clarity and precision become second nature. Whether you're crafting a compelling essay, acing an entrance exam, or sending an impeccable work email, this course is your secret weapon. With a blend of dynamic lessons and real-world applications, you won't just learn grammar--you'll master it. Like a skilled artisan, you'll shape your words with confidence and grace, transforming every sentence into a masterpiece. Join us to redefine your future with language as your ally. This is more than just a course; it's a pivotal moment in your personal and professional growth. Enroll now, and watch as doors open to endless possibilities.

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ABCs of English Grammar

Name: ABCs of English Grammar
Price: 95.00 USD

CRN: 7550403

Lesson 1: Elevate Your Writing: Polish Your Grammar Skills

Boosting your writing acumen, this course combines concise, visual guides with interactive practices illuminating the role of each speech part, alongside spelling and punctuation rules. Vigilant practice and detailed examples on verbs and noun transformations offer a road map to articulate communication.

Lesson 2: Mastering the Basics: Subject and Predicate Explained

The subject of a sentence is its main focus, identified by asking 'who?' or 'what?' The predicate, often starting with a verb, conveys what is happening in the sentence.

Lesson 3: From Nouns to Pronouns: Enhancing Sentence Flow

Nouns can be concrete or abstract, forming the backbone of sentences by naming various entities. Pronouns simplify language by replacing nouns, but require care in agreement and reference to prevent ambiguity.

Lesson 4: Navigating the Maze of Verb Tenses: Understanding Present, Past, and Future

Mastering verb tenses is about more than memorizing rules; it demands understanding their role in shaping narrative architecture. This lesson reveals how choosing the correct verb form can transform a writer's ability to deliver intended meaning with precision.

Lesson 5: Mastering the Challenges of Irregular Verbs: A Comprehensive Guide

Irregular verbs resist standard conjugation methods, offering no simple rule to capture their complexity. This lesson's list helps clarify common irregular verbs, focusing on "lie" and its tricky forms.

Lesson 6: Noun Modifiers: Adjectives & Adverbs

Participles, often seen in the '-ing' form, are versatile verbs acting as adjectives, providing nuanced descriptions within sentences. Both adjectives and adverbs play crucial roles in constructing comparisons that illustrate varying degrees of a characteristic.

Lesson 7: Mastering Sentence Clarity with Prepositional Phrases

Phrases don't convey complete thoughts but modify other sentence parts, especially through prepositional phrases. Choosing apt prepositions affects meaning; eliminating wordy phrasing enhances clarity and effectiveness.

Lesson 8: The Essential Guide to Clauses: When to Use Which and That

Understanding the distinction between independent and subordinate clauses helps in crafting more precise sentences, where the clause either stands alone or complements the larger sentence. 'Which' and 'that' are used differently within subordinate clauses, indicating whether the information is supplementary or essential.

Lesson 9: The Art of Sentence Construction

Perfecting sentence composition involves correcting run-on sentences and fragments while using parallel structures and logic effectively. The lesson elaborates on the use of punctuation and clauses to form grammatically correct sentences.

Lesson 10: Understanding Modifiers: Enhancing Clarity with Adjectives and Adverbs

Misplaced modifiers can lead to ambiguity in sentence interpretation, requiring the repositioning of phrases to accurately convey the intended message. Dangling modifiers, on the other hand, lack clear reference, demanding precise sentence construction to avoid misunderstandings.

Lesson 11: Mastering the Basics of Capitalization

The art of capitalization focuses on ensuring geographical landmarks, people's titles, proper nouns, and cultural events stand out, reflecting their importance. Meanwhile, standard academic subjects, seasonal names, and cardinal points like north or south remain lowercase.

Lesson 12: The Art of Punctuation: Colons, Semicolons, and Apostrophes

The use of punctuation is fundamental in writing: periods end thoughts, commas organize ideas, and semicolons create complex connections. Colons provide lists or explanations as parentheses and apostrophes serve more nuanced roles like setting apart remarks or indicating ownership.

Lesson 13: Empowering Your Spelling Skills: Unraveling the Mysteries of Commonly Misspelled Words

Spelling challenges many, but with targeted word lists and strategies, common errors can be minimized. This lesson highlights 200 problematic words, offering practical rules to transform spelling skills efficiently.

Lesson 14: Mastering the Art of Diction: Why Word Choice Matters

Verbs like 'borrow' and 'lend' illustrate how grammatical precision affects clarity, helping define actions accurately between interlocutors. Knowing the correct usage of terms like 'emigrate' vs. 'immigrate' can differentiate between similar yet distinct concepts.

Lesson 15: Expand Your Grammar Knowledge

Take grammar expertise further with optional books that provide nuanced insights, from Warriner's exhaustive course to Truss's amusing critique of punctuation misuse, each serving varied learning styles and writer needs in mastering nuanced English writing components. From sentence diagramming to cultural conventions, this assembly presents tools for improved grammar and stylistic finesse.

In This Course

15 Hours average completion time
1.5 CEUs
15 Lessons
37 Exams & Assignments
269 Discussions
13 Videos
277 Reference Files
11 Articles
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Last Updated July 2021

Description

This online grammar course will provide you with a comprehensive review of the grammar and writing skills necessary to be successful in your academic and professional life. Learning how to properly use English grammar will not only help you excel in writing academic essays and passing entrance exams, but more importantly, it will help you improve your everyday, work-related writing and email correspondence.

Divided up into 15 easy-to-understand lessons, this grammar course concentrates on usage, the mechanics of a sentence, spelling, and a general review of grammatical problem areas. Each lesson focuses on frequent errors, illustrates concepts with real world examples, suggests strategies, and provides review worksheets, activities, and assignments to ensure skill mastery. Lessons also offer additional study guides for further learning.

This course is ideal for all types of students who want to get an edge on taking a high school, college, or a job-related English exam--as well as anyone wishing to update and improve their grammar and writing skills.

Skills You'll Develop

Master sentence structure and usage rules
Capitalize correctly for professional writing
Simplify language with effective pronoun use
Avoid common grammatical errors
Develop advanced spelling proficiency
Craft precise and clear sentences
Understand and apply verb tenses effectively
Select words for precision and impact
Modify nouns with adjectives and adverbs accurately
Enhance clarity with punctuation mastery
Improve academic and professional writing skills

Skills You'll Develop

Master sentence structure and usage rules
Capitalize correctly for professional writing
Simplify language with effective pronoun use
Avoid common grammatical errors
Develop advanced spelling proficiency
Craft precise and clear sentences
Understand and apply verb tenses effectively
Select words for precision and impact
Modify nouns with adjectives and adverbs accurately
Enhance clarity with punctuation mastery
Improve academic and professional writing skills

More About This Course

From Nouns to Pronouns: Enhance sentence fluency significantly.
Punctuation Art: Utilize colons, semicolons accurately.
Noun Modifiers: Apply adjectives and adverbs with clarity.
Clause Essentials: Craft precise sentences effortlessly.
Irregular Verbs Mastery: Decode complex verbal forms effortlessly.
Prepositional Phrases Mastery: Improve sentence clarity effectively.
Sentence Construction Art: Eliminate run-ons and fragments seamlessly.
Navigate Verb Tenses: Shape narratives with precision mastery.
Elevate Your Writing: Polish your grammar skills effectively.
Expand Grammar Knowledge: Access nuanced learning resources easily.
Mastering the Basics: Understand subject and predicate thoroughly.

What You'll Achieve

Identify and categorize parts of speech, including verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, in given sentences.
Apply grammar rules to construct sentences using proper singular and plural noun forms, verb usage, and adjective comparison.
Identify the subject and predicate in simple and compound sentences with 90% accuracy.
Apply rules of subject-verb agreement to construct grammatically correct sentences in 8 out of 10 cases.
Define and distinguish between various types of nouns, including concrete, abstract, and compound nouns, and provide examples of each.
Demonstrate the correct usage of pronouns in sentences by identifying and correcting errors related to pronoun agreement, unclear references, case, and pronoun subtypes.
Define and differentiate between simple, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive verb tenses with examples.
Demonstrate the correct usage of irregular verbs in various sentences by identifying and applying their proper tense forms.
Identify and categorize common irregular verbs in English in their base, simple past, and past participle forms.
Demonstrate correct usage of lie, lay, and lain in constructing sentences to convey intended meanings.
Identify and describe adjectives and adverbs in a given sentence, explaining their role in modifying nouns, pronouns, verbs, or other adverbs.
Differentiate between positive, comparative, and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs, and apply them correctly in comparative statements.
Define the function of prepositional phrases as adjectives or adverbs in a sentence context.