Completing this unit should take you approximately 1 hour.
Review this list of recommended strategies to help you improve your grammar.
Descriptions add detail to what we read and help the reader "see" what the writer is thinking. In English we use modifiers to do this. When we know how different modifiers are used, we can better understand their meaning and build our vocabulary. This resource shows how adjectives and adverbs are used to modify a word or phrase. An adjective is a word that describes a noun (a person, a place, or a thing). Adjectives give us information about something so we can better understand it. Similar to an adjective, an adverb describes a verb and offers the reader more information about an action. Read this resource to learn how modifiers are used in English.
Structure doesn't just stop at a single sentence. We use organizational
structures to determine the best ways to fit sentences together in a
text. Authors choose a mode, rhetoric, or organization scheme that is
most appropriate for their message and place their sentences in that
order. By recognizing these modes of rhetoric, we can see how authors
may revise a text to make it clear to the reader. Review these examples
for ways to organize sentences.
In Unit 1, we learned how to identify and use correct grammatical structures. Now, you'll practice recognizing correct and incorrect structures and consider how to make unclear sentences easy for the reader to follow.
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