English Grammar Boot Camp
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24.
Trending Language
2016-08-19
Examine some new grammatical expressions that are on the rise, and explore the controversy they ignite within the linguistic community. Remember that English usage is a living process, and language must respond to its audience and context, adapting as necessary to fit new conditions.
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23.
Its/It€™s Confusing
2016-08-19
Apostrophes present multiple usage issues. Examine how we use them with contractions and possessives, noting the problems involved with nouns ending in s.
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22.
Duck, Duck, Comma, and Duck
2016-08-19
Punctuation acts as a fundamental component of written usage. It shapes and clarifies meaning, and it organizes language on the page.
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21.
What Part of Speech is Um?
2016-08-19
Within the grammar of conversation, study the distinction between involved discourse, which relates to negotiating relationships, and informational discourse, which involves delivering information. Then grasp the important roles of discourse markers, small words such as so," "well," and "oh," that help organize discourse and manage our expectations in conversation.
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20.
Navigating the Choppy Paragraph
2016-08-19
Learn how to make your prose writing flow and avoid choppiness through key syntactic choices. Study the known-new contract, a principle for presenting information by placing known information before new information, sentence to sentence.
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19.
The Dangers of Danglers
2016-08-19
Look closely at dangling modifiers, which are words or phrases that appear to modify something other than what was intended (e.g.
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18.
Stranded Prepositions
2016-08-19
Is it incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition? Trace the origins of this idea, and see how the practice came to be viewed as bad usage.
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17.
Squirrels and Prepositions
2016-08-19
Among the fine points of prepositions, unpack the issue of different from" vs. "different than." Grasp how prepositions show relationships between words, often giving information about time or location. With this understanding, grapple with controversies such as "between" vs. "among" and "toward" vs. "towards," and investigate a startling contemporary change with the word "because."
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16.
However to Use However
2016-08-19
Conjunctive adverbs (such as thus," "consequently," or "moreover") conjoin two clauses. Identify the range of conjunctive adverbs and their significant benefits in formal writing.
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15.
No Ifs, Ands, or Buts
2016-08-19
Begin this immersion in conjunctions with the controversy surrounding sentences that begin with conjunctions (such as And furthermore...").
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14.
Only Adverbs
2016-08-19
Discover the rich world of adverbs, as they modify not only verbs, but also adjectives, other adverbs, clauses, and sentences. Investigate intensifiers (such as very," "surely," and "possibly"), which can either strengthen or hedge statements, and study the subtleties of "flat" adverbs-adverbs that have the same form as their adjective counterparts.
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13.
Passive Voice Was Corrected
2016-08-19
Explore the use of the often-criticized passive voice, beginning with a clear definition of what distinguishes the passive voice from the active. Consider the benefits of the passive voice for situations in which responsibility for an action is unclear, for maintaining continuity in writing, and for scientific writing in which the narrative requires objectivity.
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12.
Shall We?
2016-08-19
Continue with the category of auxiliary (helping) verbs, beginning with the familiar usage issue of can" vs. "may.
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11.
Object Lessons
2016-08-19
Examine how we categorize verbs based on how they function within the sentence. Along the way, grapple with thorny usage issues, such as whether you feel bad" or "badly," and the "it is me/I" conundrum.
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10.
Going, Going, Went
2016-08-19
In the realm of verbs, begin by clarifying past tense vs. past participle, and note how new irregularities creep into the verb spectrum.
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9.
Funnest Lecture Ever
2016-08-19
Adjectives, in multiple incarnations, form the focus of this lecture. Study the ways we turn adjectives into comparatives and superlatives, and review the much-criticized issue of double comparatives.
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8.
A(n) Historical Issue
2016-08-19
Determiners are small words (such as an," "this," "each," or "many") that introduce nouns and create noun phrases. Learn their key functions in English, and see how determiners are different from adjectives and pronouns.
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7.
Which Hunting
2016-08-19
Confront the often-confusing question of when to use that" as opposed to "which." Study the most commonly applied rules governing these relative pronouns, and hear opinions on the subject from notable grammarians.
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6.
Between You and Your Pronouns
2016-08-19
Enter the world of pronouns, beginning with personal pronouns and the complications that arise around conjoined constructions (e.g.
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5.
Fewer Octopuses or Less Octopi?
2016-08-19
Investigate countable and uncountable nouns, and learn the details of how we use them with modifiers such as fewer" and "less." Then delve into irregular plurals in English, observing the variety of ways they are formed.
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4.
Re Phrasing
2016-08-19
This lecture looks at how we define and categorize words into parts of speech, and considers the fascinating ways in which words expand or move into new categories. Study how we characterize nouns, verbs, adverbs, and their syntax, and delineate the difference between a phrase, a clause, and a sentence.
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3.
Descriptivism: How Grammar Really Works
2016-08-19
Now dive into descriptive grammar: the rules that describe actual usage. In examples ranging from contractions to word order and negation, observe the wealth of grammatical knowledge that you know intuitively.
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2.
Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn€™ts
2016-08-19
Here, investigate prescriptive grammar: the set of rules that tell us what we should and shouldn't do in formal English. Trace the history of specific grammatical rules and of academic usage guides, and note how such guides justify right" vs.
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1.
Why Do We Care about Grammar?
2016-08-19
First, examine how we judge what is acceptable or unacceptable in English, and how we distinguish acceptable" from "stylistically preferable." Consider how grammar often takes on larger meanings related to education and culture.
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