Grammar Gear-Up!
Grammar can be such a garbage-load of gobbledygook for those who grapple to grasp the many gibberish-like rules of grammar! However, unless you master its mechanics, you'll remain a slave to all the Grammar-Nazis in school and in the world!
So Get Ready for a Grammar Gear-Up by Clicking on the iLessons Below:
1) Topic Area: General Usage
Unit 1: Does Grammar Matter?
https://ed.ted.com/on/hcHdkcUO
It can be hard sometimes to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we’re writing. Dive into the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists & descriptivists — who have two very different opinions on the matter.
Unit 2: How to Use Apostrophes
https://ed.ted.com/on/MVM9WSsD
It’s possessive. It’s often followed by S’s. And it’s sometimes tricky when it comes to its usage. It’s the apostrophe. Laura McClure gives a refresher on when to use apostrophes in writing.
Unit 3: What's the Comma Story?
https://ed.ted.com/on/Mms6YbCw
It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma trade.
Unit 4: How to Use a Semi-Colon
https://ed.ted.com/on/Nm9vl0Rs
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that’s why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we’re confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon.
Unit 5: Modifiers Misplaced
https://ed.ted.com/on/xZt5Q2bS
Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence—which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren’t linked clearly enough to the words they’re actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.
2) Topic Area: Tenses
Unit 6: Tenses #1
Present Simple vs Present Continuous
Unit 8: Tenses #3
Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect
Unit 10: Tenses #5
Action Verbs vs State Verbs
Unit 12: Tenses #7
'Going to' vs Present Continuous
Unit 14: Tenses #9
Future Continuous vs Future Perfect vs Future Perfect Continuous
Unit 7: Tenses #2
Present Continuous vs Present Perfect Continuous
Unit 9: Tenses #4
Present Perfect vs Past Simple
Unit 11: Tenses #6
Future Simple vs 'Going To' Future
Unit 13: Tenses #8
Past Continuous vs Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous
Unit 15:Tenses#10 Revision
Revision
Unit 16:Tenses #11 Exercises
