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English grammar boot camp / Professor Anne Curzan.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: PD2222A | The Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD). Literature & language.Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Co., [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 177 p. : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1629973149
  • 9781629973142
Subject(s):
Contents:
Disc 1. 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 -- Disc 2. Which hunting -- A(n) historical issue -- Funnest lecture ever -- Going, going, went -- Object lessons -- Shall we? -- Disc 3. Passive voice was corrected -- Only adverbs -- No Ifs, Ands, or Buts -- However to use However -- Squirrels and prepositions -- Stranded prepositions -- Disc 4. 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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"Course no. 2222"--Container.

Disc 1. 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 -- Disc 2. Which hunting -- A(n) historical issue -- Funnest lecture ever -- Going, going, went -- Object lessons -- Shall we? -- Disc 3. Passive voice was corrected -- Only adverbs -- No Ifs, Ands, or Buts -- However to use However -- Squirrels and prepositions -- Stranded prepositions -- Disc 4. 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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Set includes: 4 DVDs, 1 book.

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