English Grammar Skills 11 (ENSK 0858)

This course helps students improve their grammar and editing skills in order to be successful in Provincial English 12. The course helps students to identify and correct simple sentence errors, run on sentence errors and fragment sentence errors. The students learn to use sentence combining techniques to make more complex sentences through the introduction of subordination and coordination. Students also learn how to identify and correct verb tense errors, subject verb agreement errors, punctuation errors and a number of other grammar errors. The focus on writing fluency includes the introduction of transition words, ways to improve word choice, and ways to reduce wordiness. The course also covers some common EAL errors.