Grammar Clinic will return for the Fall 2025 semester.
Please check back with us for more information
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
| January 29 | A Clinic to Fine Tune Your Grammar Muscles - Intro to a New Way of Thinking About Language |
| February 5 | How Did Our Language Begin? Where Is It Going? |
| February 12 | Building Blocks of Language: Form Class Words – Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs |
| February 19 | Structure Class Words- Determiners, Auxiliaries, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Qualifiers |
| February 26 | Focus on Verbs – State of Being and Action |
| March 5 | The Phrasal Structure of the Sentence - Playing with Virtual Paper Plates and examining actual sentences. |
| March 19 | Subject Verb Agreement – If Both Subject and Verb end in “s,” One Is Wrong! |
| March 26 | From Part to Whole but Not Too Much – Surefire Methods for Finding and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences |
| April 2 | Types of Sentences, From Simple to Compound Complex – Analyze Sample Sentences and Then Create Your Own! |
| April 9 | Writing with Detail, Depth, and Dimension by using Prepositional Phrases, Adverbs and Appositives – See How the Masters Do It, And Then, Try It Yourself! |
| April 16 | 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. |
| April 23 |
It’s Party Time! Test Your Wits with Grammar Games: Sentence Error Bingo, Grammar Jeopardy, Kahoot, and more! |
