Improve Your Grammar Advanced Focus B

Course code ELSK 0767

Credit 0.0

Length 40.0 hours

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This course focuses on advanced grammatical structures to improve students' spoken and written English.
Key components of the course are the analysis of grammatical form, meaning, and usage. Students are given opportunities for grammar practice and production.

Prerequisites

CLB 6 Listening, CLB 6 Speaking, CLB 6 Reading, CLB 6 Writing.

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What you will learn

  • 1. Strategies and techniques specific to improvements in spoken and written advanced level grammar
    2. Gerunds and Infinitives
    3. Adverb Clauses/Reduction of Adverb Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Clauses
    4. Connectives that Express Cause and Effect
    5. Connectives that Express Contrast and Condition
    6. Conditional Sentences (Type 2 and 3) and Wishes
    7. Using the Subjunctive in Noun Clauses

How to register

Please contact the School of Instructor Education at 604.871.7488 or 604.871.7499 or by email at advising@vcc.ca to apply.
For more information, please see the PIDP Program Content Guide.

Course schedules

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CRN# Duration Delivery Location
42780 April 1, 2026
to April 30, 2026
Online Online See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

CRN# Duration Delivery Location
61051 August 4, 2026
to August 31, 2026
Online Online See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.