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Course Description

Being able to use the grammar competently helps you to improve your listening, speaking, writing and reading skills.

This English Grammar course will give you intermediate to advanced practice with sentence completion and error correction items, both of which represent common structures found in conversational and academic settings. Consequently, mastering the subject material in this course allows you to use English more fluently when communicating with other English speakers, when using English at a job, and when using English in a university environment.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, you will understand:

• Different parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and conjunctions)
• Simple and complex sentence structures
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Gerunds
• Countable vs. Non-countable nouns
• Grammar errors relating to subject-verb agreement, modifiers, tenses, punctuation, parallelism etc.
• Phrasing errors relating to idioms, redundancy, run-ons etc.