Grammar Essentials

Training for your Group

Training for Individuals

$395

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Course Overview

In this course, students will review the rules of grammar, identify common grammar errors, and refine their business writing style.

Course Length: 1 day

Audience: Professionals in a variety of fields who are seeking to refine their business writing.

Prerequisites: None

What You're Going To Learn

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Examine nouns, pronouns, and verbs. Identify adjectives and adverbs. Identify prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Identify some important rules of grammar and some commonly made grammatical errors. Identify grammar rules regarding correct punctuation. Identify problematic sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma splices, as well as effective methods of rewriting sentences so that they are clear and complete. Identify methods for improving word choices. Identify methods for building effective sentences. Identify methods for editing text effectively. Identify methods for avoiding some common errors made by overzealous writers who create hypercorrections in their own work.

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Full Course Outline

1 – IDENTIFYING NOUNS, PRONOUNS, AND VERBS

Identify Nouns
Identify Pronouns
Identify Verbs

2 – IDENTIFYING ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

Use Adjectives
Use Adverbs

3 – IDENTIFYING PREPOSITIONS, CONJUNCTIONS, AND INTERJECTIONS

Use Prepositions
Use Conjunctions
Use Interjections

4 – IDENTIFYING RULES

Monitor Sentences
Monitor Modifiers
Avoid Common Errors

5 – IDENTIFYING CORRECT PUNCTUATION

Use Parentheses Correctly
Use Commas, Semicolons, and Quotation Marks
Use Numbers, Symbols, and Capitalization Correctly

6 – IDENTIFYING SENTENCE FRAGMENTS, RUN-ONS, AND COMMA SPLICES

Identify Sentence Fragments
Identify Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Solutions

7 – IMPROVING WORD CHOICES

Identify Commonly Misused Words
Identify Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

8 – BUILDING EFFECTIVE SENTENCES

Identify the Goal
Consider the Audience
Consider the Context

9 – EDITING EFFECTIVELY

Use Correct Spelling
Achieve Clarity

10 – AVOIDING HYPERCORRECTIONS

Avoid Hypercorrections
Achieve Simplicity

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Hands-on Labs

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Certificate of Completion

Receive a certificate of completion at the end of every course.

Up-to-date Curriculum

Each course comes with a helpful and up-to-date ebook which will contain instruction and practice exercises.

Time Saving Tips N Tricks

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