What you learned in English class will help you with syntax about as much as what you learned in driving lessons will help you with mechanics—you get by fine until one day you find yourself stopped in the middle of a sentence with smoke coming out from under the hood. In this webinar, we’re going to learn how to take apart sentences the way a mechanic takes apart an engine.
The key learning objectives of this webinar are to
- diagram sentences the way linguists do—accurately and elegantly,
- learn about the building blocks of syntax,
- clear up some common misunderstandings about verbs, nouns, and pronouns, and
- dismantle and fix some of the most common mistakes people make when trying to apply “proper grammar.”
Date: Thursday, April 27
Time: 2 p.m., EDT / 11 a.m., PDT
Length: 1.5 hours
Language: English
Member price: $56.25
Non-Member price: $75
James Harbeck is a linguist, editor, and well-known writer and speaker on language. His articles appear regularly on websites such as TheWeek.com and BBC.com as well as on his own blog, Sesquiotica.
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