Use Grammar with Confidence

Course details

Standard English has become the language of business in many parts of the world. Although using good grammar cannot guarantee your professional success, poor grammar can prevent your career from taking off.

Using grammar correctly projects a professional image for you – it shows that you care enough about your work to write grammatically correct messages. Poor grammar, on the other hand, may project a sloppy, ignorant or indifferent image.

Although some grammar mistakes are minor and can be overlooked, others could be serious enough to distort your message, and you need to know how to avoid them.

What do you gain from this workshop?

This workshop builds upon the foundations of grammar - the parts of speech. You will learn how each part of speech should be used correctly, and how people usually make mistakes with these parts of speech. More importantly, you will learn how to avoid these common errors.

This workshop also discusses grammar technicalities like the use of punctuation and sentence constructions. You will test your own understanding of the learning points through exercises, peer-teaching activities and grammar games.

Workshop Objectives

• Understand the foundations of grammar.
• Know the pertinent points in the use of each part of speech.
• Be aware of the common errors made in grammar, and how to avoid these errors.
• Be aware of serious grammar errors that will distort the meaning of your message, and how to avoid these errors.
• Understand the principles of sentence construction, and how to write clear and concise sentences.

Workshop Highlights

The Parts of Speech

• A preview of the parts of speech

Nouns

• Proper and common nouns
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Determiners

Pronouns

• Subjective and objective case pronouns
• Reflective case pronouns

Adjectives

• Comparative forms of adjectives
• Compound adjectives

Verbs

• Subject-verb agreement
• Transitive & intransitive verbs
• Commonly confused tenses - Simple Past, Present Perfect and Past Perfect
• Modal verbs
• Conditional clauses

Adverbs

• Adverbs in use
• Common mistakes with adverbs

Prepositions

• The role of prepositions
• inconsequential mistakes with prepositions
• Serious mistakes with prepositions

Conjunctions

• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions

Interjections

• The use of interjections in business writing

Punctuation

• The comma
• The semicolon
• The colon

Writing a Simple Sentence

• The simple sentence
• A sentence fragment
• The four sentence structures