Grammar Clinic is offered online through ZOOM. (Click on the link to access the Clinic).
The Grammar Clinic offers a non-judgmental arena for learning with no tests, homework, or grades. It also creates a community of learners who come from across the college community – students at all levels, both credit, and continuing education/workf
Join us to enhance your skills and learn something new every Wednesday!
Grammar Clinic Schedule of Topics:
Contact Sherry Saylors (saylorsb@pgcc.edu) for information on the presentations.
Weekly on Wednesdays
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| September 4 | A Clinic to Fine Tune Your Grammar Muscles - Intro to a New Way of Thinking About Language |
| September 11 | How Did Our Language Begin? Where Is It Going? |
| September 18 | Building Blocks of Language: Form Class Words – Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs |
| September 25 | Structure Class Words- Determiners, Auxiliaries, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Qualifiers |
| October 2 | Focus on Verbs – State of Being and Action |
| October 9 | The Phrasal Structure of the Sentence - Playing with Virtual Paper Plates and examining actual sentences. |
| October 16 | Subject Verb Agreement – If Both Subject and Verb end in “s,” One Is Wrong! |
| October 23 | From Part to Whole but Not Too Much – Surefire Methods for Finding and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences |
| October 30 | Types of Sentences, From Simple to Compound Complex – Analyze Sample Sentences and Then Create Your Own! |
| November 6 | Writing with Detail, Depth, and Dimension by using Prepositional Phrases, Adverbs and Appositives – See How the Masters Do It, And Then, Try It Yourself! |
| November 13 | Rhetorical Grammar, or How do I use all this neat grammar I know in order to communicate more skillfully? We will discuss such topics as completeness, end focus, and the known-new contract. |
| November 20 |
It’s Party Time! Test Your Wits with Grammar Games: Sentence Error Bingo, Grammar Jeopardy, Kahoot, and more! |