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English grammar boot camp [videorecording (DVD)] / Anne Curzan.

by Curzan, Anne.

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Teaching Company, 2016.

DVD 428.2 C983e

English language -- Grammar.

English language -- Usage.

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Writing.

Great courses (DVD)

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Great Courses. English grammar boot camp [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (177 p.)

"24 lectures, 30 minutes per lectures."--Container.

Course no. 2222.

Disc 1. Why do we care about grammar? -- Prescriptivism: grammar Shoulds and Shouldn'ts -- Descriptivism: how grammar really works -- Re phrasing -- Fewer octopuses or less octopi? -- Between you and your pronouns -- Disc 2. Which hunting -- A(n) historical issue -- Funnest lecture ever -- Going, going, went -- Object lessons -- Shall we? -- Disc 3. Passive voice was corrected -- Only adverbs -- No Ifs, Ands, or Buts -- However to use However -- Squirrels and prepositions -- Stranded prepositions -- Disc 4. The dangers of danglers -- Navigating the choppy paragraph -- What part of speech is Um? -- Duck, duck, comma, and duck -- Its/It's confusing -- Trending language.

Professor Anne Curzan.

Lecturer: Professor Anne Curzan, University of Michigan.

Improve your gramma competence and confidence in all contexts with these illuminating lectures that cover the essential elements of English grammar and usage.

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