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Course description

This course will build on students' intuitive understanding of how words work, and equip them with a command of sentence structure and style by providing them with strategies to edit their own and others' work. The course will cover word usage; phrases and clauses; sentence structure and types of sentences; case of nouns and pronouns; tense, mood, form, and voice of verbs; modal verbs; verbals; agreement of subject and verb; pronoun reference; adjectives and adverbs; modifiers, conjunctions, parallelism; prepositions; punctuation; and paragraph coherence and cohesion.