This comprehensive online course will help you navigate the linguistic twists and turns of American English grammar.
Who is this course for?
- Writers of all levels who want to get their manuscripts in great shape for self-publishing or submission to traditional publishers.
What you’ll learn
- Comprehensive grammar concepts from homophones to punctuation with quotation marks to verb tense.
- How to use good grammar for better writing.
- Self-editing and self-improvement strategies.
About the course
Write more effectively starting today.
Whether you’re a student or a professional, a published writer or a beginner, this comprehensive online course will help you navigate the linguistic twists and turns of American English grammar.
Get a personalized learning experience with a one-on-one instructor.
Good grammar doesn’t make good writing, but good writing demands good grammar.
Write more effectively starting today.
Whether you’re a student or a professional, a published writer or a beginner, this comprehensive online course will help you navigate the linguistic twists and turns of American English grammar.
Get a personalized learning experience with a one-on-one instructor.
Good grammar doesn’t make good writing, but good writing demands good grammar.
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Course Content
You'll have 12 weeks of course access. During that time, you can go at your own pace.
Lesson Name & What’s Included
Ch 1. Parts of Speech
Meet the eight parts of speech and learn how they fit together to make a grammatical sentence.
Ch 2. Mixed-up Words
Recognize and correctly use commonly mixed-up words like homophones and other confusables.
Ch 3. Contractions and Possessive
Gain command of the apostrophe to make contractions and possessives.
Ch 4. Subjects and Predicates
Locate subjects and predicates and understand their place in sentence structure.
Ch 5. Sentence Fragments
Spot sentence fragments and rework them into complete sentences.
Ch 6. Run-on Sentences
Identify run-ons and learn how to correct them.
Ch 7. Standard Verb Forms
Get familiar with standard verb forms in simple and complex tenses.
Ch 8. Pronouns
Discover pronoun groups and forms.
Ch 9. Agreement
Ensure agreement between subjects and verbs, and pronouns and antecedents.
Ch 10. Shifts in Person, Tense, and Structure
Maintain consistency in person, tense, and structure.
Ch 11. Clarity, Concision, Diction, and Logic
Develop clear, concise, and logical sentences
Ch 12. Capitalization and Punctuation
Master basic rules of capitalization and punctuation.
Instructor
Ellen Feld
Ellen Feld is the creator/instructor of online grammar refresher courses that have served over 43,000 students. She's worn a variety of editorial hats, including newspaper reporter and copy chief, personal essayist, website reviewer, writing coach, and developmental editor. She has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of the children’s storybook Paragon and Jubilee. Ellen brings a personal touch to online education. All grammar questions are welcome! Students graduate from Grammar Lion with a new understanding of English grammar and a new belief in their writing ability. Ellen's educational philosophy extends to dogs and the canine-human connection. She promotes personalized training methods and the elimination of neck-choking collars. She's the inventor/maker of the all-in-one, Dog-Kind™ Harness. When she's not teaching, writing, or editing, you can find Ellen out and about with her rescue pooch, Hallmark.
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I highly recommend the Grammar Lion: Grammar Refresher Course. Thanks to my elementary school teachers from long ago, I have an intuitive sense of proper grammar, but I wanted to refresh my memory of the rules and grammar lexicon.
The course is easily digestible, the website navigation is seamless, and the collection of supplemental resources is thoughtful.
This was truly time and money well spent.