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English Grammar Boot Camp

Curzan, Anne. Book on CD - 2016 BOCD 428.2 Cu Oversize 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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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.
Lecturer: Anne Curzan, University of Michigan.

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SERIES
Great courses. Literature & language. Writing.



PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Co., 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 12 sound discs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1629973149
9781629973159
1629973157

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Curzan, Anne.
Teaching Company.

SUBJECTS
English language -- Grammar.