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This course is all about advancing beyond basic sentence diagramming practices and enhancing student writing through knowledge of sentence structure. Students will learn about things such as active and passive voice, complex sentences, compound-complex sentences, and verbals. We will also practice these different grammar techniques in writing. 

In this course, students will receive two lessons per week. Each lesson will consist of a video, which will introduce a new topic and provide practice problems. The videos are interactive, so students will need to pause in places, try some examples, and then move on to see the correct techniques. Students will also  have a short practice assignment with each lesson. This will most often be a writing prompt asking students to use certain types of techniques or sentences. These assignments should not take students more than 30 minutes to complete. Students will also receive a required test 5 times throughout the course. They should send their completed work to the instructor for feedback. 

I am available to students from 9am to 5:30pm central time on the week days. I will respond to student inquiries and assignments within 36 hours, not counting Saturday or Sunday. 

I am an energetic and enthusiastic educator. Though sentence diagramming may be a dull topic to some, I believe students feel my excitement about the topic. I will always be supportive and encouraging so that students feel comfortable and confident. 

*Prior knowledge is required before taking this course!* Students must know the basics of sentence diagramming. Students must have an understanding of how to set up a sentence diagram. They must know how to diagram modifiers, such as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Students should understand predicate adjectives, predicate adverbs, direct objects, and indirect objects. If students have taken my first sentence diagramming course, they are ready for this one!