SEGL 252

252 - Understanding Grammar

Course Description

This course helps students understand the system of rules underlying the grammar of English; it makes a distinction between rules of usage and rules of grammar. To introduce the structure of Standard American English, the students complete many instructive, practical, and interesting language activities. The exercises are designed to reinforce the principles of English grammar and to give the students the chance to discover for themselves how the English language works. It is hoped that the students will challenge the generalizations they arrive at, look for exceptions and counterexamples, and check their conclusions against what they observe about the use of English rather than accept what grammar teachers and handbooks claim to be a fact about the English language.

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Links

Practice Praxis
A link for those planning to be teachers which may be of benefit to all.

Grammar Guide
Connecticut Community College Grammar help site

Online Writing Lab
Detailed look at English Grammar
- Purdue University