Be sure that you read and understand all policies and procedures before applying for a course. Courses may be added or cancelled at any time. Contact Distance Education to confirm course availability. This course is designed to help students learn the terminology and the structure of the English language.
Students can enter the course with little or no previous instruction in formal grammar.
Parts of speech, sentence structure, choice and use of words, capitalization, and punctuation are covered in this course. Students will review parts of speech and usage, sentence patterns, basic punctuation, and capitalization. They will study new material, such as clauses, phrases, sentence problems and effective sentences, complex and compound sentences, and complex pronoun, verb and adverb forms. The intent of this course is to help students become more effective readers by emphasizing strategies that help them improve their basic language and literacy skills. They study about central themes, main ideas, major and minor details, inferences, fact and opinion, context clues, and vocabulary.