Native English Writing and Grammar Skills University Course

Learn paragraph format by centering and capitalizing the title, indenting with tab, and spacing sentences. Choose serif or sans serif fonts at size 12 and write at least five sentences.

Discover how paragraph structure uses a topic sentence, a body, and a conclusion, with a hamburger analogy, and learn to restate the topic in the conclusion.

Learn to craft a focused topic sentence with a clear subject and controlling idea, usually the first sentence, and avoid common facts in your paragraph.

Describe how adjectives modify nouns and appear before nouns or after verbs like feel, seem, and look, and learn the common order to limit to three adjectives.

Explore the four major sentence types—simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex—along with independent and dependent clauses. Learn how coordinating and subordinating conjunctions shape meaning.

Describe a person, place, or thing using adjectives and the five senses to paint a vivid image with space order words. Structure includes a topic sentence and a conclusion.

Master prepositions in, on, and at by learning time and location uses, including in for months, on for days and dates, at for precise times, and enclosed spaces.

Explore comparatives and superlatives, using syllable-based rules to form them, such as er/est for one-syllable words and more/most for longer words, with examples like bigger and dirtier.

Learn how comparing signal words guide readers to similarities and differences, using terms like as well, both, similarly, and however.

Choose a topic, complete a Venn diagram, and select a writing style to craft a clear compare and contrast paragraph that analyzes similarities and differences.

Master modal verbs, including can, could, may, might, shall, should, must, will, would, and be able, to express ability, possibility, permission, obligation, advice, and requests across tenses.

Explore conditionals and the four types from type 0 to type 3, covering present simple, will, would, past simple, and past perfect, with if and when usage and cause-and-effect examples.

craft a persuasive paragraph by presenting a clear opinion, a compelling hook, three supporting reasons with examples, and a concluding restatement.

Review capitalization, adjectives, models, and conditional sentences while mastering paragraph formats for descriptive, compare/contrast, and persuasive writing to become a better English writer.