Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation Specialization

Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation Specialization

Gain Confidence Using Advanced Grammar Structures. Diversify how you express yourself in academic and professional settings.

Instructors: Tamy Chapman

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4 course series

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4 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.8

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Advanced level

Designed for those already in the industry

2 months

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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Grammar

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Specialization - 4 course series

This specialization follows our Learn English: Intermediate Grammar specialization and includes more advanced grammar concepts such as noun clauses and conditionals. You'll also learn how to blend verb tenses effectively and how to punctuate sentences correctly. This specialization is useful for non-native English speakers who want to improve their fluency or native speakers who want to improve their accuracy in using English for academic or professional purposes.

Verb Tenses and Passives

Course 124 hours4.8 (1,969 ratings)

What you'll learn

This is the first course in the Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation specialty. In this course, you will review the verb tenses that you learned in beginning English classes and learn about a few tenses you may not know very well. In all, you'll cover all 12 of the English verb tenses and passive verb forms. Most importantly, you'll learn how to blend these tenses, which is what native speakers frequently do. This course is vital to your becoming a more fluent English speaker.

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Conjunctions, Connectives, and Adverb Clauses

Course 222 hours4.8 (733 ratings)

What you'll learn

This is the second course in the Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation specialty. In this course, you will learn about a lot of different ways to join ideas to make more complex and interesting sentences. You'll learn about two types of conjunctions, many other types of connectives, and adverb clauses. You'll also learn about how to punctuate all of these expressions and the types of sentences they create. All of this is grammar you must know to have a high fluency in English.

Noun Clauses and Conditionals

Course 321 hours4.8 (465 ratings)

What you'll learn

This is the third course in the Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation specialty. In this class, you will learn about the advanced grammar concepts of noun clauses and conditionals. You will learn about several different types of each and get lots of practice using them appropriately. This may seem like difficult grammar, but this course will make them easy to understand. These grammar points are essential for any learner trying to master fluency in the English language.

Advanced Grammar & Punctuation Project

Course 420 hours4.8 (133 ratings)

What you'll learn

If you have taken the three courses in this specialization, you have learned a lot of grammar in the past few months. This will be a big help to your studies or your career. This project will help you process what you've learned and help you remember it forever. In this course, you will create a grammar portfolio of the difficult or interesting English grammatical structures that you studied in the previous courses. Your portfolio will include several items that you create, such as two scripts that you will write, in which you showcase proper use of grammar points you've learned. You will then record a video performing each script and using the grammar. You can record these two videos alone or with friends. You can be creative and make funny skits like your teachers did in all of the fun videos you watched in this specialization or use your own creative style. The items you create for your portfolio will help you review the material you've learned and will be a memorable project that you can keep with you long after this course ends.

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Tamy Chapman

University of California, Irvine

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Frequently asked questions

Each course is about 3-4 hours per week for four weeks. The whole specialization would take about 16 weeks.

You should know intermediate grammar already. This course assumes you have studied English grammar before.

It's recommended that you take them in order.

Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.