Udemy – Master English Punctuation and Grammar: A Course for Natives 2022-5

This English Language course includes the following:

• Downloadable lectures on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric (British teacher, 20 years’ experience)
• Advanced lectures on how to identify and use determiners, nouns, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, and rhetorical devices
• 196-page ebook that contains supplementary exercises on the above-mentioned themes. The ebook uses exerts from Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), 1984 (George Orwell), Animal Farm (George Orwell), and Lord of the Flies (William Golding) to test your understanding of the role that phrases, clauses, and parts of speech play in punctuation and rhetoric.
• An analysis of the punctuation guidelines for academic English and for literature
• An analysis of the range of phrases and clauses that all writers use, including absolute phrases, participle phrases, appositives, gerund phrases, to-plus-infinitive phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases, subordinate clauses, relative clauses, and main clauses.
• An analysis of a variety of literary devices that writers use, including alliteration, assonance, oxymoron, anaphora, epistrophe, anadiplosis, chiasmus, antimetabole, epanalepsis, mesodiplosis, and many more.
• All questions answered promptly (within 24 hours) in the Q and A section
• Lifetime membership (more lessons and resources added every month)

By the end of the course, you will be able to identify and to explain the wide variety of phrases, clauses, and literary devices found in the literature. Armed with a precise comprehension of the sentence, you will develop not only a keen appreciation of the skill required to compose a work of fiction, but also a deep understanding of how to use the very same skills in your own written work.