Master Advanced Grammar - Part 2

The Sequel to Master English Grammar - Advanced Level

What you'll learn

Understand, identify, and employ absolute phrases, participle phrases, appositives, adjectival phrases, and prepositional phrases

Understand, identify, and employ relative clauses, adverbial clauses, noun clauses, main clauses, and subordinate clauses

Understand, identify, and employ complex forms (all four aspects) when using tenses, gerunds, participles, modals, and to + infinitives

Understand, identify, and employ modal verbs, performative verbs, copular verbs, and ergative verbs

Understand, identify, and employ definite articles, indefinite articles, and zero article.

Understand, identify, and employ prepositions of space, prepositions of time, and complex prepositions

Understand, identify, and employ coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions, as well as conjunctive adverbs.

Understand, identify, and employ clear parallel structure in your own sentences

Understand, identify, and employ both gradable and ungradable adjectives in a variety of complex phrases

Understand, identify, and employ a variety of adverb-verb collocations

Understand, identify, and employ compound nouns and possessive noun phrases

Requirements

You will need at least an intermediate level of English

It is recommended that you take Master Advanced Grammar (part 1) first

Description

This course follows on from my earlier course Master English Grammar - Advanced Level, and it is also aimed at those who learn English as a second language. There are many new topics on this course, and many old ones which are challenging, and therefore worth repeating. I encourage every student to make a suggestion for a topic for a future class. I promise to make the best suggestions into lessons, then upload them to the course. Although this interactive course is already very large, it is a work in progress, so you can be sure it will grow larger, and it will do so thanks to your ideas. The course includes the following:Downloadable lectures on essential grammar topics (British teacher, 20 years' TEFL experience) Advanced-level lectures on phrases and clauses, tense and aspect, verbs, prepositions, nouns, determiners, conjunctions, adjectives, adverbs, and many more44 quizzes, testing and tracking your understanding of the major themes on this course.The opportunity to suggest topics on the Q and A or in a message, and I promise to make many into future classes that I will upload to this course for everyone's benefitThe opportunity to ask questions on the topics that really confuse you, and I promise to reply within 24 hoursAdvice on how to avoid the most common mistakesLifetime membership (more lessons and resources regularly added)And the following topics are included:An analysis of grammatical terms used to describe the main parts of speech (e.g. copular verb, collective noun, gradable adjective)An analysis of the different types of phrase and clause (e.g. absolute phrase, appositive phrase, sentential clause, subordinate clause)An analysis of the usage of the four aspects (simple, continuous, perfect simple, perfect continuous) in various tenses, modals, to + infinitives, gerunds, and participlesAn analysis of different types of verb, noun, adjective, preposition, determiner, adverb, and conjunctionAn analysis of collocations (adverb-verb), comparisons, and parallelism.I expect this list to grow with your help! Please join us and let me know which grammar  topics you would like to learn more about. Let's make this course bigger and better together.

Overview

Section 1: Grammatical Terminology

Lecture 1 Types of Verb

Lecture 2 Types of Noun

Lecture 3 Types of Adjective

Lecture 4 Types of Phrase and Clause - Part 1

Lecture 5 Types of Phrase and Clause - Part 2

Lecture 6 Types of Phrase and Clause - Part 3

Lecture 7 Absolute Phrases

Lecture 8 Appositives

Lecture 9 Phrases and Clauses in Literature

Section 2: Tense and Aspect

Lecture 10 4 Aspects, 3 Tenses

Lecture 11 The Present in 4 Aspects (Part 1)

Lecture 12 The Present in 4 Aspects (Part 2)

Lecture 13 The Past in 4 Aspects

Lecture 14 The Future in 4 Aspects

Lecture 15 Infinitives / to + infinitives in 4 Aspects (Part 1)

Lecture 16 Infinitives / to + infinitives in 4 Aspects (Part 2)

Lecture 17 Gerunds and Participles in 2 or 3 Aspects

Lecture 18 Passive Forms (Part 1)

Lecture 19 Passive Forms (Part 2)

Lecture 20 Present Perfect and Future Time Clauses

Section 3: Verbs

Lecture 21 Performative Verbs (Lesson 1)

Lecture 22 Performative Verbs (Lesson 2)

Lecture 23 Modal Verbs (Part 1)

Lecture 24 Modal Verbs (Part 2)

Lecture 25 Modal Verbs (Part 3)

Lecture 26 Complex Modal Verbs

Section 4: Prepositions

Lecture 27 Prepositions of Space

Lecture 28 Prepositions of Time

Lecture 29 Two-Word Prepositions

Lecture 30 Complex Prepositions (Part 1)

Lecture 31 Complex Prepositions (Part 2)

Lecture 32 Verb + Preposition

Section 5: Determiners and Nouns

Lecture 33 Articles (Part 1)

Lecture 34 Articles (Part 2)

Lecture 35 Quantifiers

Lecture 36 Noun Clauses

Section 6: Conjunctions

Lecture 37 Types of Conjunction - Part 1

Lecture 38 Types of Conjunction - Part 2

Lecture 39 Parallelism

Section 7: Adjectives

Lecture 40 Adjective Position

Lecture 41 Adjective Patterns

Lecture 42 Comparative Phrases

Section 8: Adverbs

Lecture 43 Adverb-Verb Collocations (Part 1)

Lecture 44 Adverb-Verb Collocations (Part 2)

Section 9: Miscellaneous

Lecture 45 Possessive Noun Phrases (Noun's Noun or the Noun of Noun?)

Lecture 46 In case V in (the) case of

Intermediate to advanced learners of English as a foreign language,Anyone who has already completed my first advanced grammar course (Master English Grammar - Advanced Level)