Advanced Grammar & Style

Are your high-achieving students ready to move beyond basic correctness to sophisticated style? Advanced grammar and style instruction equips college-bound students with the nuanced grammatical tools needed for success in higher education and professional contexts. These advanced concepts—including parallel structure, syntax for emphasis, rhetorical grammar, and sentence rhythm—help students develop distinctive voices and adapt their writing to specialized academic and professional genres. Research from the College Board indicates that sophisticated command of sentence structure and grammatical variety correlates strongly with higher performance on AP English exams and college writing assessments. Rather than presenting these concepts as additional rules to memorize, frame advanced grammar as a set of stylistic tools that expand students' expressive capabilities—similar to how advanced techniques enhance a musician's or artist's range. Consider implementing sentence style analysis activities where students examine the grammatical patterns of writers in your discipline, identifying how sentence length, structure, and rhythm contribute to these authors' distinctive styles. Design revision workshops focused specifically on stylistic enhancement, where students experiment with sentence combining, syntactic inversion, or parallel structure to achieve greater emphasis or elegance in their prose. Create opportunities for "grammatical play" through sentence imitation exercises, where students mimic the syntactic patterns of accomplished authors before adapting these structures to express their own ideas. Implement our advanced grammar and style curriculum to prepare your students for the sophisticated writing demands they'll encounter in college and beyond.