English Grammar Boot Camp (Course Guidebook)

✍ Scribed by Anne Curzan

• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1 ▪ Why Do We Care about Grammar?
Lecture 2 ▪ Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn’ts
Lecture 3 ▪ Descriptivism: How Grammar Really Works
Lecture 4 ▪ Re Phrasing
Lecture 5 ▪ Fewer Octopuses or Less Octopi?
Lecture 6 ▪ Between You and Your Pronouns
Lecture 7 ▪ Which Hunting
Lecture 8 ▪ A(n) Historical Issue
Lecture 9 ▪ Funnest Lecture Ever
Lecture 10 ▪ Going, Going, Went
Lecture 11 ▪ Object Lessons
Lecture 13 ▪ Passive Voice Was Corrected
Lecture 14 ▪ Only Adverbs
Lecture 15 ▪ No Ifs, Ands, or Buts
Lecture 16 ▪ However to Use However
Lecture 17 ▪ Squirrels and Prepositions
Lecture 18 ▪ Stranded Prepositions
Lecture 19 ▪ The Dangers of Danglers
Lecture 20 ▪ Navigating the Choppy Paragraph
Lecture 21 ▪ What Part of Speech is Um?
Lecture 22 ▪ Duck, Duck, Comma, and Duck
Lecture 23 ▪ Its/It’s Confusing
Lecture 24 ▪ Trending Language
Bibliography
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