ENGLISH LEVEL 1

 

ENGLISH LEVEL 1

This course introduces the students to the standards of college level English. It assists in developing the skills of the students in grammar, vocabulary, sentence variety, paragraph development, reading, and writing skills necessary for the success in all the other college courses.

PRE-REQUISITES: Basic English Proficiency

COURSE OUTLINE

Becoming a Better Writer

·         Organizing your Writing

·         The writing process

The Basics

·         Parts of Speech

·         Subjects and Verbs

·         Irregular Verbs

·         Sentence Types

·         Pronoun Forms

·         Pronoun Problems

·         Articles

·         Adjectives and Adverbs

Beyond the Basics

·         Subject-Verb Agreement

·         Fragments

Beyond The Basics

·         Run-ons and Comma Splices

·         Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

·         Parallelism

Punctuation

·         The Comma

·         The Apostrophe

·         Quotation Marks

·         Other Punctuation Marks

Mechanics and Spelling

·         Proofreading Your Work

·         Ten Proofreading Tests

·         Word Choice

·         Capital Letters

·         Numbers and Abbreviations