Grammar Essentials

Course length: 1 day

Course Description:
You learned the rules of grammar in school, but now you'd like to refresh and refine your grammar usage for your professional life. You need to articulate your ideas clearly and succinctly in written communications and present yourself in a professional manner. In this course, you will review the rules of grammar, identify common grammar errors, and refine your business writing style.

Course Objective: You will identify the elements of correct grammar for use in professional writing.

Target Student: Professionals who seek to improve their grammar usage for written communications.

Prerequisites: None

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives
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.

Course Content
Lesson 1: Identifying Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs

    Topic 1A: Identify Nouns
    Topic 1B: Identify Pronouns
    Topic 1C: Identify Verbs

Lesson 2: Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs

    Topic 2A: Use Adjectives
    Topic 2B: Use Adverbs

Lesson 3: Identifying Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections

    Topic 3A: Use Prepositions
    Topic 3B: Use Conjunctions
    Topic 3C: Use Interjections

Lesson 4: Identifying Rules
 
    Topic 4A: Monitor Sentences
    Topic 4B: Monitor Modifiers
    Topic 4C: Avoid Common Errors

Lesson 5: Identifying Correct Punctuation

    Topic 5A: Use Parentheses Correctly
    Topic 5B: Use Commas, Semicolons, and Quotation Marks
    Topic 5C: Use Numbers, Symbols, and Capitalization Correctly

Lesson 6: Identifying Sentence Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices

    Topic 6A: Identify Sentence Fragments
    Topic 6B: Identify Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Solutions

Lesson 7: Improving Word Choices

    Topic 7A: Identify Commonly Misused Words
    Topic 7B: Identify Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

Lesson 8: Building Effective Sentences

    Topic 8A: Identify the Goal
    Topic 8B: Consider the Audience
    Topic 8C: Consider the Context

Lesson 9: Editing Effectively

    Topic 9A: Use Correct Spelling
    Topic 9B: Achieve Clarity

Lesson 10: Avoiding Hypercorrections

    Topic 10A: Avoid Hypercorrections
    Topic 10B: Achieve Simplicity