Course Syllabus

Course Description

This online grammar course will provide you with a comprehensive review of the grammar and writing skills necessary to be successful in your academic and professional life. Learning how to properly use English grammar will not only help you excel in writing academic essays and passing entrance exams, but more importantly, it will help you improve your everyday, work-related writing and email correspondence.

Divided up into 15 easy-to-understand lessons, this grammar course concentrates on usage, the mechanics of a sentence, spelling, and a general review of grammatical problem areas. Each lesson focuses on frequent errors, illustrates concepts with real world examples, suggests strategies, and provides review worksheets, activities, and assignments to ensure skill mastery. Lessons also offer additional study guides for further learning.

This course is ideal for all types of students who want to get an edge on taking a high school, college, or a job-related English exam--as well as anyone wishing to update and improve their grammar and writing skills.

Completely Online
Self-Paced
6 Months to Complete
24/7 Availability
Start Anytime
PC & Mac Compatible
Android & iOS Friendly
Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Recognize the subject and predicate of any sentence.
Know the differences between nouns and pronouns.
Be comfortable with forming sentences with the correct verb tenses.
Recognize irregular verbs.
Differentiate between adjectives and adverbs and use them properly in sentences.
Understand what is meant by a Phrase.
Identify the Clause.
Break down the mechanics of a sentence.
Identify the role of modifiers and use them correctly.
Correctly use capitalization in writing.
Correctly punctuate sentences.
Avoid common spelling problems.
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

Assessment Guide

Assessment	Points
Introduction	1 points
Lesson 2 Exercise: Subject and Predicate Agreement	10 points
Lesson 2 Exercise: Subject Verb Agreement	40 points
Lesson 2 Exam: Subject and Predicate	13 points
Lesson 3 Exercise: Find the Subject Noun	10 points
Lesson 3 Exercise: Case of Nouns and Pronouns	10 points
Lesson 3 Exercise: Pronoun Substitution	10 points
Lesson 3 Exercise: Correct Pronoun Use	8 points
Lesson 3 Exercise: Nouns and Pronouns	10 points
Lesson 3 Exercise: Using the Correct Pronoun	10 points
Lesson 4 Exercise: Find the Verb	15 points
Lesson 4 Exercise: Recognizing Verb Tenses	7 points
Lesson 4 Exercise: Simple Present Verb Tenses	10 points
Lesson 4 Exam: Verbs	25 points
Lesson 5 Exercise: Irregular Verbs	10 points
Lesson 5 Exam: Irregular Verbs	7 points
Lesson 6 Exercise: Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs	20 points
Lesson 6 Exercise: Adjectives and Adverbs	10 points
Lesson 6 Exercise: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives	10 points
Lesson 6 Exam: Adjectives and Adverbs	10 points
Lesson 7 Exercise: Identify the Preposition	20 points
Lesson 7 Exam: The Phrase	14 points
Lesson 8 Exam: The Clause	12 points
Sentence Corrections	10 points
Lesson 9 Exercise: Run-On sentences	45 points
Lesson 9 Exercise: Sentence Logic	50 points
Modifiers	12 points
Lesson 10 Exam: Modifiers	25 points
Lesson 11 Exam: Capitalization	20 points
Lesson 12 Exercise: Sentence Punctuation	10 points
Lesson 12 Exam: Punctuation	16 points
Lesson 13 Exercise: Spelling Review A	13 points
Lesson 13 Exercise: Spelling Review B	7 points
The Final Exam	381 points