Description

This course will prepare the student for future work-related tasks requiring a variety of writing skills. The student will review fundamentals of grammar and usage, and will develop abilities in using a dictionary effectively.

Objectifs

• Use a dictionary to obtain information about spelling, hyphenation, pronunciation, word meaning, and usage notes
  • Explain the terms used in the dictionary guide
  • Find a word without knowing its spelling
  • Find the definition of a word, its synonyms and its antonyms
• Acquire knowledge and skills regarding the use of nouns
  • Identify the classes of nouns
  • Use the plural form of nouns
  • Recognize the possessive form
• Acquire knowledge and skills regarding the use of pronouns in a sentence
  • Identify the antecedent in order to use the correct pronouns
  • Identify the personal pronouns and their forms in a sentence
  • Differentiate between who and whom
  • Properly use the relative pronouns in a sentence
  • Identify pronouns that take special singular and plural forms
  • Recognize other pronouns
• Acquire knowledge and skills regarding the use of verbs in a sentence
  • Recognize the difference between action and linking verbs
  • Write verbs in the past, present, and future tenses correctly
  • Use the perfect tenses when necessary
  • Explain the progressive tense
  • Recognize the imperative mode
  • Recognize the role of helping or auxiliary verbs
  • Use modals correctly in sentences
  • Recognize the different verb conjugations
  • Use the negative and question form
  • Recognize the difference between the active and passive voice
  • Use the troublesome verbs correctly
• Acquire knowledge and skills regarding adjectives and adverbs
  • Recognize an adjective
  • Use the positive, comparative, and superlative form of the adjective
  • Recognize an adverb
  • Use the positive, comparative, and superlative form of the adverb
• Acquire knowledge and skills regarding the use of the most common prepositions and conjunctions
  • Demonstrate when to use prepositions in sentences
  • Recognize the most frequently used prepositions
  • Recognize a conjunction
  • Demonstrate when and how to use conjunctions

Aperçu du contenu

• Dictionary: terms and usage
• Nouns: classes, plural form, possessive form
• Pronouns: antecedent, personal forms, relative pronouns; singular and plural forms; other pronouns
• Verbs: persons, tenses, voices, auxiliaries; functions in the sentence
• Adjectives and adverbs: differences and usage
• Common prepositions and conjunctions