Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Cerebellum Corp
• VHS Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1886156948
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,457 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This 26-minute overview of American English grammar is brought to you by the same folks who produce and deliver the longer, nontelevised Standard Deviants video lessons. That means the same humor, racehorse pace, and onscreen graphics but in about a third of the time. The cast of actors defines grammar and then dives right into the various parts of speech, defining each, outlining rules, and following up with illustrations of use. No one is above a little buffoonery (head-bonking, yodeling) to make a point, and skits and comical use of old black-and-white footage are par for the course. Meanwhile, students learn to differentiate between four kinds of nouns, two kinds of pronouns, and adverbs vs. adjectives. Throw in prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections and you've got yourself a thorough lesson. It's like having a troupe of fresh-faced, hip young people take over your classroom for a half-hour. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Product Description

Suffering from bad grammar? The Standard Deviants have the cure-Standard Edited American English, the form of English used in formal papers and reports! Learn the proper use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions and everything in between.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Standard Deviants TV English Grammar, September 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Standard Deviants TV: English Grammar [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This tape is a good learning tool for the freshman college level student who is interested in strenghening his or her basic understanding of English grammar. I am English instructor at a California State University and will use this tape for my developmental classes not as a stand-alone lesson but as reinforcement for grammatical concepts we will study in the class. Because this tape is fast-paced and fun, I think it is a good way to introduce or re-introduce students to some of the basic components of English grammar such as parts of speech, tense, number, etc. The fact that the tape uses multi-cultural students as spokespeople is nice too because it is representative of the student population at my school. This tape might also be good for high-school seniors who have already had a course in basic grammar. The only negative criticsm I have for this series is that it tends to move very quickly, but one can always rewind and replay sections that move too quickly.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun? Let's not overstate things, December 15, 2002

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Monkey Girl "thenaughtymonkeyblogspot.com" (Hubertus, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standard Deviants TV: English Grammar [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When promised "the most fun ever- or your money back" I was geared up for some serious grammar fun. Sadly, I was disappointed. Yes, this is more fun than reading a grammar book by yourself, but so is scrubbing the grout in your bathroom. Alas, perhaps making grammar fun is an impossible task....