Module 6: Grammar & Usage, Part 2
Editing for Usage and Style by Tiffani Tijerina is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International
Editing for Usage and Style by Tiffani Tijerina is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International
Analyze independent, relative, nominal, and adverbial clauses to correctly construct and punctuate simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Convert wordy passive constructions into active voice when appropriate, managing passive complements, and distinguish infinitives from prepositional phrases.
Identify and revise dangling participles, split infinitives, awkward phrasal verb particles, and redundant expletive constructions (there and it)
Implement precise rules for restrictive vs. non-restrictive elements, who/whom selection, possessive apostrophes, and formal punctuation marks (commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes) to polish professional prose.
Clause & Sentence Classification: Coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions; simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex structures; sentence purpose classification.
Advanced Clauses: Relative clauses (restrictive vs. non-restrictive, who/whom rules), nominal clauses (that/if/whether nominalizers), and adverbial clauses of time, place, cause, condition, contrast, purpose, and result.
Voice & Verbals: Active vs. passive transformations, passive complements, infinitives vs. prepositional phrases, phrasal verb particles, gerunds, participles, and resolving dangling modifiers or split infinitives.
Advanced Nouns & Pronouns: Capitalization of titles, possessive apostrophes, appositives, direct address, expletives (there and it), form vs. function in speech parts, and expanded pronoun types (reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, reciprocal.
Punctuation Masterclass: Commas, comma splices, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, hyphens, and tone-appropriate mark selection.
Pick back up where you left off last week, starting with section 9.
9. Conjunctions, Compounds, and Subordinate Clauses
10. Sentence Structure, Conjunctions, and Types of Sentences
11. Relative Clauses
12. Nominal Clauses
13. Adverbial Clauses
14. Verbs, Voice, Infinitives, and Phrasal Verbs
15. More on Nouns
16. Interjections and the Eight Parts of Speech
17. Verbals
18. Infinitives
19. More Pronouns
20. The Expletive It
21. Punctuation
*Explainer and knowledge check questions generated with Notebook LM, using Open PTE, Grammar Handbook for Editors Sections 9-21 as the source content.
There is no discussion board this week. Instead, access the following Grammar Lab Google Doc and complete it. The first link forces you to make a copy to your Google Drive to edit. If you do not want to complete it as a Google Doc, the second link will prompt you to download it as a Word document. Submit it in Blackboard as either a Google Doc link or a Word document upload. After the deadline, I will share the answer key for you to check your work.