Course Information
Course Overview
Learn the fundamentals of English grammar. Designed to help college & high school students & English-language learners.
In this course, we will concentrate on the technical aspects of writing for business and academic purposes.
We will learn how to compose “clean copy” – that is writing devoid of technical errors of grammar, syntax, usage - and spelling.
We will learn to present ourselves in writing so that we come across as educated, intelligent and competent.
- A complete course in English grammar -- for students, college, high school, and learners of the language, and anyone else who has long wanted to learn the correct form for spoken and written English.
- 430 minutes of video instruction
- 10 chapters of supplemental text (more than 150 pages)
- Exercises to practice and re-enforce your learning.
- Chat-room contact with your instructor so you can ask any question, so nothing is left unclear.
- All at a reasonable price.
A verifiable Certificate of Completion will be awarded at the successful completion of the course!
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 35 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction - Why Grammar?
- Section 2 Parts of Speech
- Section 3 The sentence: the fundamental unit of composition
- Section 4 When sentences go bad - sentence fragments & run-ons
- Section 5 Verbs - make me tense
- Section 6 Nouns - naming all the things that make up our world
- Section 7 Pronouns - taking the place of nouns
- Section 8 Adjectives and Adverbs - change you can believe in!
- Section 9 Prepositions
- Section 10 Punctuation
What You’ll Learn
- By the end of this course, you will be able to write English sentences free of major grammar errors.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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SScott Flora
This class has been an engaging and entertaining format so far. Perhaps later, I will come back and correct the grammar of this rating when I learn more.
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GGerardo Alanis
Great course!
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EEmilze ELOY
I loved the parts of speech lesson, because I understood the nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc., better than I used to.
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NNoreen Baker
It’s a good refresher!