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Grammar Skills
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Instructor Led |
Overview: |
| In this course, students will learn how to improve your business writing skills by understanding grammar rules.
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Target Audience: |
| This course is essential for anyone who corresponds, particularly if it is on behalf of the organisation. Executive Assistants, Supervisors, Sales People and Managers will all gain benefit. |
Key Participant Benefits: |
- Simple yet sequential method means logical and easier mastery of learning
- Creates a more polished and professional image thereby increasing clarity and accuracy of the message, while minimising misunderstandings
- Excellent foundation skills for Business Writing and Report and Proposal Writing
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Key Business Benefits |
- Presents a better business image to customers both external and internal
- Boosts an individual’s productivity through accurate, clear and well-constructed communication
- Minimises misunderstandings and re-work by others
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| Lesson 1: The importance of grammar |
- Grammar skills
- Improving grammar skills
- Writing clearly
- Nouns and verbs
- Identifying nouns
- Identifying verbs
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| Lesson 2: Pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs |
- Pronouns
- Identifying pronouns
- Identifying categories of pronouns
- Identifying pronoun cases
- Identifying compound personal pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Identifying types of adjectives
- Identifying adverbs
- Identifying degrees of adjectives and adverbs
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| Lesson 3: Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections |
- Prepositions
- Identifying prepositions
- Identifying prepositional phrases
- Conjunctions
- Identifying conjunctions
- Working with clauses and conjunctions
- Interjections
- Identifying interjections
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| Lesson 4: Effective sentences |
- Sentence formation
- Defining effective sentences
- Identifying sentences
- Defining the natural order of sentences
- Identifying subjects
- Identifying predicates
- Phrases and clauses
- Identifying phrases
- Identifying clauses
- Sentence classifications
- Classifying sentences
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| Lesson 5: Agreement rules |
- Subject and verb agreement
- Identifying subject and verb agreement
- Identifying singular subjects
- Identifying compound subjects
- Identifying pronoun and antecedent agreement
- Identifying verb tense agreement
- Parallel sentence structure
- Making sentences parallel
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| Lesson 6: Improving sentence structure |
- Sentence fragments
- Identifying sentence fragments
- Run-on sentences
- Identifying run-on sentences
- Active and passive voice
- Identifying passive voice
- Changing passive voice to active voice
- Split infinitives
- Identifying split infinitives
- Discussing sentence structure guidelines
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| Lesson 7: Word choice |
- The importance of word choice
- Selecting the right word
- Misused words
- Identifying misused words
- Spelling errors
- Fixing spelling errors
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Attaching prefixes
- Attaching suffixes
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| Lesson 8: Punctuation and mechanics |
- Punctuation to separate clauses
- Using commas
- Using semicolons and colons
- Using dashes
- Parentheses and apostrophes
- Using parentheses and brackets
- Using apostrophes
- Using hyphens
- Quotation marks and numbers
- Using quotation marks and ellipses
- Using italics
- Determining when to spell out words
- Capitalization rules
- Applying capitalization rules
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| Lesson 9: Synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms |
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Identifying synonyms and antonyms
- Homonyms
- Identifying homonyms
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