Using tried and trusted methods, this ongoing class will enable students to master key grammatical concepts and apply them with fluency. The topics will change week by week. Details of upcoming classes are as follows:

Week beginning September 2:
Capitalization: Prizes, Institutions, Vehicles, Places
Punctuation: Hyphens and Parentheses
Parts of Speech: Pronouns, Verbs, Nouns
Analogies
Homophones
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning September 9:
Capitalization: Events, Places, Scientific Terms
Punctuation: Em Dashes, Company Names, Artworks
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Prepositions, Pronouns
Commonly Confused Words
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning September 16:
Capitalization: Outlines, Quotations
Punctuation: Embedded Clauses and Phrases, Colons
Parts of Speech: Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives
Prepositional and Participial Phrases
Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning September 23:
Capitalization: Nicknames, Quotations, Letters
Punctuation: Vehicles, Ellipses, Colons, Quotations
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Adjective, Pronouns, Nouns, Conjunctions
Analogies
Subject / Verb Agreement
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning September 30:
Capitalization: Proper Noun Phrases, Titles
Punctuation: Letters, Parentheses, Dependent Clauses
Parts of Speech: Interjections, Conjunctions, Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives
Double Negatives
Subject / Verb Agreement
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning October 7:
Capitalization: Parentheses, Languages
Punctuation: Commas, Possessive Apostrophes
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs, Pronouns
Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning October 14:
Capitalization: Roman Numerals, Titles
Punctuation: Relative and Dependent Clauses, Outlines
Parts of Speech: Adverbs, Nouns, Pronouns
Phrases Versus Clauses
Fragments / Sentences / Run-ons
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning October 21:
Capitalization: Poetry, Quotations
Punctuation: Ellipses, Contrasts, Artworks
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Adverbs, Irregular Verbs
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning October 28:
Capitalization: Types, Brand Names, Political Parties
Punctuation: Interrupters, Em Dashes
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Prepositions
Phrases Versus Dependent Clauses
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning November 4:
Capitalization: Letters, Vehicles, Titles
Punctuation: Participial Phrases, Verbals, Hyphens
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns, Pronouns
Simple / Compound / Complex Sentences
Independent Versus Dependent Clauses
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning November 11:
Capitalization: Hyphenated Words, Outlines, Titles
Punctuation: Inverted Names, Business Names, Addresses
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Pronouns
Analogies
Double Negatives
Identifying Subjects, Verbs and Prepositional Phrases
Commonly Confused Words
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning November 18:
Capitalization: Quotations, Events, Hyphenated Names
Punctuation: Interrupters, Artworks, Letters
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Pronouns
Identifying Subject, Verb and Object
Subordinating Conjunctions and Clauses
Passive Voice
Commonly Confused Words
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning November 25:
Capitalization: Constellations, Companies, Letters
Punctuation: Split Quotations, Brackets
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns
Categorizing Phrases (Participial, Prepositional, Infinitive, and Gerund)
Subject / Verb Agreement
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning December 2:
Capitalization: Scientific Terms, Parentheses
Punctuation: Essential and Nonessential Clauses, Apostrophes
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns, Verbs
Analogies
Sentences / Fragments / Run-ons
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning December 9:
Capitalization: Quotations, Events
Punctuation: Quotations, Brackets, Contrasts
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Conjunctions, Interjections
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
Dependent Clauses
Simple Versus Compound Sentences
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning December 16:
Capitalization: Historical Periods, Brand Names, Legislation
Punctuation: Em Dashes, Hyphens
Parts of Speech: Pronouns, Adverbs, Nouns
Categorizing Sentences (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex)
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning December 23:
Capitalization: Ethnic Groups, Classes, Titles
Punctuation: Titles, Quotations, Outlines
Parts of Speech: Conjunctions, Adverbs, Verbs
Phrases Versus Clauses
Subject / Verb Agreement
Compound and Complex Sentences
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning December 30:
Capitalization: Poetry, Titles, Ships
Punctuation: Addresses, Quotations, Prepositional Phrases
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs
Gerund and Infinitive Phrases
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences