Grammar for Business Online Course

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Suitable for: This course is designed for anyone who would like to be more confident with their English grammar. It has been particularly tailored to meet the needs of people at work for whom writing is part of their role. If you want your emails, letters and reports to be taken seriously, they must be written properly and use correct grammar. This course is ideal for anyone who thought grammar is boring and complicated – it makes it interesting and easy to learn. What’s more it’s been proven time and again in the classroom – it has the same explanations and activities as our classroom training.
Objectives:

To learn or relearn basic grammar principles and how they influence your writing at work · To become confident using the main parts of speech · To understand punctuation and how to use it properly · To make your writing clearer and more direct · To help you write with authority ·

 


Course Description

The course programme includes:

What is grammar?

  • How language changes
  • Keeping pace with change
  • Rules
  • Usage

Parts of Speech – and Introduction

The Verb

  • What they are and why they are so important
  • Different types of verb
  • Active and passive verbs – what they are and what you need to know about them
  • Tenses
  • Auxiliary verbs and participles explained in an easy to understand way

Nouns and Pronouns

  • The different types of nouns and when you use them
  • Capital letters – when and where
  • Singular and plural
  • Why abstract nouns cloud your writing and how to correct it
  • Pronouns – what they do
  • Different types of pronouns explained

Other parts of speech

  • Adjectives
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
  • Adverbs

Punctuation

  • Capital letters – a reminder
  • Full stop (period)
  • Commas
  • Colons and semi colons – what use  are they anyway?
  • Hyphens and dashes
  • Exclamation marks, quotation marks and question marks
  • The apostrophe explained

Sentences and paragraphs

  • What a sentence is and what it isn’t
  • Types of sentence
  • Subject of a sentence
  • Subjects and verbs
  • How long?
Your learning is supported by activities and quizzes throughout

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Cost  
£49.95
All prices exclude VAT

 

 

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Course ID: 17021001