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ESL 023 - Elementary Grammar
This is a high beginning multi-skills course to practice and learn grammar in listening speaking, reading and writing for everyday life and in college. Students must take this course with other ESL skills courses in writing (ESL 024), reading (ESL 025) and listening/speaking (ESL 026).
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Use the simple present, past and future tenses of regular and irregular verbs.
- Use with some accuracy the present and past continuous, and the present perfect tenses.
- Understand and use yes/no and wh- questions.
- Produce and use sentences with if, when, after, before, because and while with correct verb tenses.
- Use models of ability, request and necessity.
- Use with some accuracy prepositions of time, place, pronouns and count/non-count nouns.
- Use with some accuracy comparisons and superlatives.
- Learn and use language confidently and appropriately.
Prerequisite: Placement test or recommendation of instructor.
Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in ESL 024 unless testing indicates otherwise.
3 hours each week 3 credits