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English
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2-3 hours worth of material
selfpaced
Overview
Identify and learn how to avoid grammar and punctuation errors.
Losing confidence in an ideaâeven a spectacular oneâis easy if it's communicated in an email or letter riddled with grammatical errors. In this course, Judy Steiner-Williams helps you review basic grammar rules and then focuses on more advanced grammar principles such as using correct words, locating incorrect grammar in sentences and paragraphs, and reviewing parts of speech, punctuation, and proper sentence structure.
Losing confidence in an ideaâeven a spectacular oneâis easy if it's communicated in an email or letter riddled with grammatical errors. In this course, Judy Steiner-Williams helps you review basic grammar rules and then focuses on more advanced grammar principles such as using correct words, locating incorrect grammar in sentences and paragraphs, and reviewing parts of speech, punctuation, and proper sentence structure.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Verb tense
- Irregular verbs
- Conjunction overview
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Prepositions
- Commonly confused or incorrect words
- Misused or misunderstood words
- Commas
- Colons and semicolons
- Apostrophes
- Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses
- Parentheses and brackets
- Misfits that distract readers
- Review sentence structure
- Components of a sentence
- Sentence structure errors
- Parallel structure
- Dangling modifiers
- Next steps
Taught by
Judy Steiner-Williams
