Record details

• ISBN: 9781629973159
• ISBN: 1629973157
• Physical Description: 12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• Edition: Unabridged.
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016]
• Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:

Title from container.

Course No. 2222.

24 lectures (30 min. each).

Compact discs.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 170-176).

Formatted Contents Note:

volume 1: lecture 1. Why do we care about grammar? -- lecture 2. Prescriptivism: grammar shoulds and shouldn'ts -- lecture 3. Descriptivism: how grammar really works -- lecture 4. Re phrasing -- lecture 5. Fewer octopuses or less octopi? -- lecture 6. Between you and your pronouns -- lecture 7. Which hunting -- lecture 8. A(n) historical issue -- lecture 9. Funnest lecture ever -- lecture 10. Going, going, went -- lecture 11. Object lessons -- lecture 12. Shall we?

volume 2: lecture 13. Passive voice was corrected -- lecture 14. Only adverbs -- lecture 15. No ifs, ands, or buts -- lecture 16. However to use However -- lecture 17. Squirrels and prepositions -- lecture 18. Stranded prepositions -- lecture 19. The dangers of danglers -- lecture 20. Navigating the choppy paragraph -- lecture 21. What part of speech is Um? -- lecture 22. Duck, duck, comma, and duck -- lecture 23. Its/It's confusing -- lecture 24. Trending language.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer: Anne Curzan, University of Michigan.

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English language > Grammar.
English language > Grammar.

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