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English Grammar Boot Camp

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Improve your grammar competence and confidence by learning the essential elements of English grammar and usage, led by an award-winning linguist.

Syllabus

  • 01: Why Do We Care about Grammar?
  • 02: Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn'ts
  • 03: Descriptivism: How Grammar Really Works
  • 04: Re Phrasing
  • 05: Fewer Octopuses or Less Octopi?
  • 06: Between You and Your Pronouns
  • 07: Which Hunting
  • 08: A(n) Historical Issue
  • 09: Funnest Lecture Ever
  • 10: Going, Going, Went
  • 11: Object Lessons
  • 12: Shall We?
  • 13: Passive Voice Was Corrected
  • 14: Only Adverbs
  • 15: No Ifs, Ands, or Buts
  • 16: However to Use However
  • 17: Squirrels and Prepositions
  • 18: Stranded Prepositions
  • 19: The Dangers of Danglers
  • 20: Navigating the Choppy Paragraph
  • 21: What Part of Speech is Um?
  • 22: Duck, Duck, Comma, and Duck
  • 23: Its/It's Confusing
  • 24: Trending Language
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Anne Curzan, Ph.D.

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