English Grammar Boot Camp
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Improve your grammar competence and confidence by learning the essential elements of English grammar and usage, led by an award-winning linguist.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Anne Curzan, Ph.D.
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