This DVD deals with the question: When should errors and unclear word choices be corrected to achieve better writing, and when should writers and readers simply agree to disagree?

Summarizes the parts of speech and then looks at the ways in which one part of speech can be used syntactically as another. Also gives examples of errors in subject/verb agreement and article/noun agreement. Discusses idioms.

This collection of 15 DVDs illustrates some of the most common issues and errors relating to grammar, speech, punctuation, reading, writing, and listening.

Language unites people of a community through a code that is understood by those who use it, ranging from street slang to the prescribed usage of grammar by an elite. This program examines language in a historical context and as a political tool.