Advanced Finnish: Grammar and Style

Course Content

1. Review of Complex Case Structures
2. Nuances of the Partitive vs. Accusative
3. Advanced Verb Types and Conjugation Patterns
4. Mastering the Conditional and Potential Moods
5. The Passive Voice: Nuances and Common Pitfalls
6. Advanced Participles and Their Syntactic Uses
7. Complex Sentence Structures and Subordination
8. Formal vs. Informal Registers: Puhekieli and Kirjakieli
9. Stylistic Devices and Rhetorical Tools in Finnish
10. Writing Cohesive Essays: Connectors and Transitions
11. Idiomatic Expressions and Metaphors
12. Nuances of Word Order for Emphasis and Focus
13. Academic and Professional Writing Standards
14. Stylistic Polishing and Proofreading Techniques