Essentials of Business Grammar Course
- Duration:1 Day
- Cost:£540 + VAT
- Ref:EOG
Don’t let your writing skills let you down; get help from our business grammar course.
Who is it for
Anyone who has to write reports, white papers, letters or marketing copy who wishes to improve their written English and feel confident with the rules of grammar.
What is it about
When you write for business, your reader won’t be giving you the benefit of the doubt. The quality of your syntax says a lot about you, your organisation and your products and services. If your writing is sloppy, inaccurate and amateurish it sends the wrong message. You will leave this course with the confidence to write accurate, punchy and compelling documents that say the right things about you.
Course Overview
- The parts of speech
- Understand nouns, pronouns, verbs and conjunctions
- Learn the subject and object pronoun
- Tense
- Sentence construction
- Linking ideas together
- The active and the passive voice
- Subject and verb agreement
- Punctuation
- Apostrophes: the possessive form; abbreviations and contractions
- Using commas correctly
- The semi-colon and colon
- Common mistakes, and how to avoid them
What will I get out of it?
- Confidence to write punchy and compelling documents
- A thorough refresher in English grammar, especially punctuation
- Full understanding of the uses and parts of speech
- Techniques for good sentence construction
- Checklist of pitfalls to watch out for
- Pride in your written work
Pre-course activity
Please bring along examples of your own written work, so you can review, edit and analyse with the trainer on the day.