Grammar Essentials

Hours: 24 / Access Length: 180 Days / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $139.95

Course Overview:

We use grammar everyday, so why is it that we don’t regularly review our knowledge? This course is designed to help you improve your writing and review the rules of grammar. You will have the opportunity to brush up on your skills and review some common rules of grammar that may have been forgotten.  This course will improve your written expression by providing grammatical lessons and reference materials.

Learning Outcomes:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Recognize the different parts of speech and the basics of sentence structure.
• Learn to recognize sentence fragments and run on sentences.
• Understand how to correctly use apostrophes, homophones and pronouns.
• Learn to check for sentence structure agreement.
• Review how to express yourself in a masterful way.

About This Course:

We are committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. This course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments.

When a student learns, they are not alone.   Each student will be supported by our student services department – which ranges from course mentors, registrar, and technical support assistance.   Every month students have a progress report run on them every month by our student services department to ensure they are making satisfactory progress.   If a student falls behind, we reach out to them personally by phone call every month to see if there is anything we can do to continue to assist them with moving forward in their course.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1. Parts of Speech

In this first lesson, you will become familiar with the different parts of speech.

Lesson 2. Homophones…Don’t Get Confused

In an effort to avoid sentence structure errors, you will review common homophones and how to select the right word for your sentence.

Lesson 3. Why Do We Need Apostrophes Anyways?

This lesson will focus on how and when to use apostrophes.

Lesson 4. Mastering the Basics of Sentence Structure

Sentence structure requires a subject and a predicate. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify the subject and the predicate in each sentence.

Lesson 5. Is this a Complete Sentence?

Are you able to spot a sentence fragment? This lesson will review how to check if you have created a complete sentence.

Lesson 6. Don’t Run On!

Sometimes it is difficult to know when to end a sentence and start a new sentence. This lesson will focus on identifying the natural end to a sentence.

Lesson 7. What is in a Verb?

Verbs describe the action in a sentence and using them properly helps you to hone your written expression.

Lesson 8. Pronouns…Small, but Mighty!

The use of pronouns is quite tricky at times. This lesson will focus on the proper use of pronouns.

Lesson 9. Do We All Agree?

Grammatical consistency is what drives this lesson. You will learn how to check that your subjects, verbs and pronouns all agree.

Lesson 10. Find the Inconsistency

Checking your work for inconsistencies will become second nature after mastering this lesson.

Lesson 11. Writing in a Curated Way

Learning how to express yourself in a manner that is edited for clarity is the key to mastering grammar.

Lesson 12. Refresh Your Memory

This last lesson will refresh your grammar school knowledge and review capitalization rules, semicolon uses, parentheses and dashes.

All necessary materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.