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Grammar Workshop
Grammar Workshop
| Course Ref. | 10036 |
| No. of Days | Half Day |
| Participants | 6 to 8 |
Target Audience
An intensive programme designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to prepare grammatically correct written documents.Course Objectives
- Know the key grammar and punctuation errors made in business English and how to correct them
- Have refreshed how to construct sentences so that you achieve an average sentence length of 15 – 20 words in your documents
- Be aware of the “myths” in written English
Methods
Presentation, discussion, individual and paired practical exercises.Important notes
There is a series of exercises which forms the pre-course work to this course, and which participants must complete this before attending the workshop.Course Contents
Welcome and introductions
Introduction to session
- Overview of session – objectives and programme
- Introductions and personal objectives
- Planning to write: the essential questions to answer (why, who, how and what)
- Word order in a sentence
- Active versus passive
- Reducing sentence length: avoid wordy phrases, tautologies and nominalisation
- Subject and verb agreement
- Confused words
Punctuation
- Use of the apostrophe
- Semi-colon and colon
- Punctuation surgery
- Split infinitives
- Prepositions at the end of sentences
- And, but and because to start sentences
- Other common errors
- How do I need to change my writing?
