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Grammar for Writers

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  1. Week 1

    Lesson 1.1: Introduction
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  2. Lesson 1.2: The Main Line
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    1 Quiz
  3. Lesson 1.3: Subjects and Verbs
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    1 Quiz
  4. Week 2
    Lesson 1.4: Objects and Complements
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    2 Quizzes
  5. Lesson 1.5: The Five Clause Patterns
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    2 Quizzes
  6. Week 3
    Lesson 1.6: Actors and Actions, Subjects and Verbs
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  7. Lesson 1.7: What Is the Passive Voice?
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  8. Lesson 1.8: When Is the Passive Useful?
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  9. Week 4
    Lesson 1.9: Nominalization
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  10. Lesson 1.10: Strong Verbs, Precise Verbs
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  11. Lesson 1.11: Keeping Verbs Close to Subjects
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  12. Week 5
    Lesson 1.12: Compounds on the Main Line
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  13. Lesson 1.13: Verb Tenses
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  14. Week 6
    Lesson 2.1: Introduction
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  15. Lesson 2.2: Adjectives and Adverbs
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  16. Lesson 2.3: What’s So Bad About Adverbs?
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  17. Week 7
    Lesson 2.4: Prepositional Phrases I
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  18. Lesson 2.5: Prepositional Phrases II
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  19. Week 8
    Lesson 2.6: Participles
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  20. Lesson 2.7: Participial Phrases
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  21. Lesson 2.8: Infinitive Phrases
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  22. Week 9
    Lesson 2.9: Subordinate Clauses
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  23. Lesson 2.10: Adjective Clauses
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  24. Week 10
    Lesson 2.11: Adverb Clauses
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  25. Lesson 2.12: More on Subordinate Clauses
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  26. Week 11
    Lesson 2.13: Misplaced Modifiers
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  27. Lesson 2.14: Conclusion
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  28. Week 12
    Lesson 3.1: Introduction
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  29. Lesson 3.2: Noun Clauses
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  30. Lesson 3.3: Gerunds and Infinitives
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  31. Week 13
    Lesson 3.4: Appositives
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  32. Lesson 3.5: Essential and Non-Essential Elements
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  33. Lesson 3.6: Review
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  34. Week 14
    Lesson 4.1: Introduction
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  35. Lesson 4.2: Subject-Verb Agreement
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  36. Lesson 4.3: Pronouns and Antecedents
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  37. Week 15
    Lesson 4.4: Connecting Clauses
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  38. Lesson 4.5: Connecting Clauses (Part 2)
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  39. Week 16
    Lesson 4.6: Parallelism
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  40. Lesson 4.7: Nominative Absolutes
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  41. Lesson 4.8: Course Wrap-Up
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Quiz on The Main Line

Jonathan Rogers, PhD
  1. Grammar for Writers
  2. Lesson 1.2: The Main Line
  3. Quiz on The Main Line

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