ONLINE ENGLISH INSTRUCTION
General Course Description
Online Grammar Review
Online Pronunciation - Oral Skills
Online Vocabulary Development
Online Writing
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Online English Grammar Review

This course, offered in three parts, presents a review of English grammatical structures. In each lesson, you will encounter vocabulary and grammar first in the natural context of a high-interest reading. Second, you will focus on selected grammar points. You will read clear charts, explanations and examples of these grammar points and learn how they are used in spoken and written English. In the third step, you will practice both form and meaning in a variety of controlled exercises. Final steps include communication practice, where you will use the new structures freely and creatively in writing sentences and paragraphs.

Although Online Grammar Review B builds upon the foundation of A, and C builds upon B, you are not required to enroll in all three courses. For an assessment of your writing skills, please send us an email message. Contact Us

A discount is given for enrollment in the ABC series.

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Online Grammar Review Course Details

Grammar Review A

• Parts of Speech (i.e. Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions, Interjections)
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
• Simple Sentences and their parts (e.g. Subject + Predicate)
• Basic Sentence Patterns (e.g. Subject + Intransitive verb, Subject + Intransitive verb + Complement, Subject +
• Transitive verb + Object, Subject + passive verb)
• Verb Tenses: Form, Meaning and Usage (Simple Present, Present Progressive, Simple Past, Past Progressive, WAS/WERE going to, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Progressive, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Progressive, Future Progressive, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Progressive)
• Tag Questions: Review Meaning, Form and Use of Auxiliaries and Verb Tenses
• Additions and Responses with So, Too, Neither, Not either, and But

Grammar Review B

• Gerunds and Infinitives: Which form is correct?
• Verbs followed by Objects and the Base Form (Make, Have, Let, Help)
• Passive vs. Active Voice: Form and Function
• The Passive with Modals
• Passive Causatives: have/get something done
• Modals: Advisability and obligation in the past (Should have, Ought to have, Could have,Might have)
• Speculations and conclusions about the past (May have, Might have, Could have, Must have, Had to have)
• Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences: What they are and how to write them
• Conditional Sentences (Factual Conditionals in Present and Future, Unreal Condidtionals in Present and Past)

Grammar Review C

• Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns Who, That, Which
• Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns Whom, That, Which
• Adjective Clauses with possessive Whose
• Adjective Clauses with relative adverbs When, Where
• Direct and Indirect Speech: When to use quotation marks, commas and other punctuation
• Sequence of verb tenses in reported speech
• Indirect Instructions, Commands, Requests, and Invitations
• Indirect Questions
• Embedded Questions
• Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns
• Phrasal Verbs: get up, get over, get off, etc.
• Sentence Boundaries: Avoiding fragments, run-on and comma splice errors

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