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Title:
English grammar boot camp / Professor Anne Curzan.
Author:
Curzan, Anne.

Teaching Company.
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Co., 2016.

©2016
Call Number:
PE1112.7 .E545 2016
Abstract:
Improve your grammar competence and confidence in all contexts with these illuminating lectures that cover the essential eelments of English grammar and usage.
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ISBN:
9781629973142

9781501949814
Series:
Great courses. Literature & language. Writing

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Writing.
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Contents:
Why do we care about grammar? -- Prescriptivism: grammar Shoulds and Shouldn'ts -- Descriptivism: how gramamr really works -- Re phrasing -- Fewer octopuses or less octopi? -- Between you and your pronouns -- Which hunting -- A(n) historical issue -- Funnest lecture ever -- Going, going, went -- Object lessons -- Shall we? -- Passive voice was corrected -- Only adverbs -- No Ifs, Ands, or Buts -- However to use However -- Squirrels and prepositions -- Stranded prepositions -- 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.
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