Master English Punctuation and Grammar: A Course for Natives
This English Language course offers downloadable lectures and an ebook to help you confidently identify and use parts of speech, phrases, and clauses. Enhance your grammar, vocabulary, and rhetorical skills to express yourself with more variety and originality. Analyze punctuation guidelines and literary devices used in academic and literary writing. Suitable for native and intermediate to advanced English speakers who want to understand the precise function of words, phrases, and clauses.
What you’ll learn
- How to identify and use the parts of speech confidently and correctly
- How to identify and use the different types of phrase and clause
- How to identify and employ different rhetorical devices, not only in your writing, but also in your speech
- How to enhance and expand both your grammar and your vocabulary
- How to express yourself with more variety, clarity, and originality
This English Language course includes the following:
Downloadable lectures on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric (British teacher, 20 years’ experience)
Advanced lectures on how to identify and use determiners, nouns, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, and rhetorical devices
196-page ebook that contains supplementary exercises on the above-mentioned themes. The ebook uses excerpts from Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), 1984 (George Orwell), Animal Farm (George Orwell), and Lord of the Flies (William Golding) to test your understanding of the role that phrases, clauses, and parts of speech play in punctuation and rhetoric.
An analysis of the punctuation guidelines for academic English and for literature
An analysis of the range of phrases and clauses that all writers use, including absolute phrases, participle phrases, appositives, gerund phrases, to-plus-infinitive phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases, subordinate clauses, relative clauses, and main clauses.
An analysis of a variety of literary devices that writers use, including alliteration, assonance, oxymoron, anaphora, epistrophe, anadiplosis, chiasmus, antimetabole, epanalepsis, mesodiplosis, and many more.
All questions answered promptly (within 24 hours) in the Q and A section
Lifetime membership (more lessons and resources added every month)
By the end of the course, you will be able to identify and to explain the wide variety of phrases, clauses, and literary devices found in the literature. Armed with a precise comprehension of the sentence, you will develop not only a keen appreciation of the skill required to compose a work of fiction, but also a deep understanding of how to use the very same skills in your own written work.
Who this course is for:
- Native English Speakers (all levels)
- Intermediate to Advanced English Speakers
- Anyone who wants to know the precise function of words, phrases, and clauses
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