Has your ability to use written grammar weakened with time? Are you not sure whether to use “he” or “him,” “who” or “whom,” “was” or “were,” “quick” or “quickly,” “good” or “well,” etc.? Do you sometimes write incomplete or confusing sentences? In this course, you will relearn to write, using the correct parts of speech, sentence structures, and principles of subject-verb agreement, pronoun forms, and placement of modifiers. This course also provides a firm foundation for understanding punctuation rules. The course is designed as a refresher for those whose primary language is English. 16 hours (Textbook required)

Fee:

$184

English for Careers by Smith, 9th edition. (ISBN 9780131183865)

To recognize and be able to use correctly nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions

To recognize and use correctly subjects and predicates

To recognize direct objects

To be able to combine sentences with the same subject and different predicates

To be able to combine sentences with the same predicate and different subjects

To recognize and form possessive nouns. The distinction will be made between possessive singular and possessive plural, and singular and plural forms.

To recognize appositives

To recognize prepositions and prepositional phrases, adjectives, adverbs

To label linking verbs, helping verbs, irregular verbs, verb phrases, and verbals (infinitives, participles, gerunds)

To recognize the difference between sentences, clauses, and sentence fragments

To recognize proper usage of pronouns

To learn to make subjects and verbs agree

To recognize linking verbs, avoid double negatives, learn proper use of adjectives and adverbs, to use comparative and superlative degrees properly, and to properly use prepositions and conjunctions

Overall: the emphasis will be learning grammar for the sake of better writing, speaking, and proofreading skills. The emphasis is on the practical application of learned skills.