Overview

Improve your grammar competence and confidence by learning the essential elements of English grammar and usage, led by an award-winning linguist.

Topics Covered:
  • 1: Why Do We Care about Grammar?
  • 2: Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn'ts
  • 3: Descriptivism: How Grammar Really Works
  • 4: Re Phrasing
  • 5: Fewer Octopuses or Less Octopi?
  • 6: Between You and Your Pronouns
  • 7: Which Hunting
  • 8: A(n) Historical Issue
  • 9: Funnest Lecture Ever
  • 10: Going, Going, Went
  • 11: Object Lessons
  • 12: Shall We?
  • 13: Passive Voice Was Corrected
  • 14: Only Adverbs
  • 15: No Ifs, Ands, or Buts
  • 16: However to Use However
  • 17: Squirrels and Prepositions
  • 18: Stranded Prepositions
  • 19: The Dangers of Danglers
  • 20: Navigating the Choppy Paragraph
  • 21: What Part of Speech is Um?
  • 22: Duck, Duck, Comma, and Duck
  • 23: Its/It's Confusing
  • 24: Trending Language