ENGL C092 Grammar and Punctuation Refresher
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed for students of all levels. Topics
include recognizing sentence patterns, avoiding run-ons and
fragments, knowing when to use the comma, correctly
employing the minor punctuation marks of semicolon, colon,
dash, and others. Some time will be spent on grammar’s
relation to style and a brief history of the English
language.
REQUISITES
Prerequisites: Writing level 2
Advisory: Reading level 2
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will
be able to
- Identify the basic grammar of sentences: simple,
compound, complex, compound-complex.
- Recognize parts of speech and the structure of phrases.
- Find and fix major grammatical errors: run-ons,
fragments, subject/verb agreement errors.
- Punctuate correctly using the comma.
- Punctuate correctly using the “minor” punctuation marks
of semicolon, colon, dash, and apostrophe.
- Describe grammar’s relation to style and analyze
passages for the way grammatical choices influence stylistic
tone, texture, and atmosphere.
- Report basic information about the history of the
English language.
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