In this course, students will learn how to improve their business writing skills by understanding grammar rules.
Outline
Lesson 1: The importance of grammar
- Grammar skills
- Improving grammar skills
- Writing clearly
- Nouns and verbs
- Identifying nouns
- Identifying verbs
Lesson 2: Pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs
- Pronouns
- Identifying pronouns
- Identifying categories of pronouns
- Identifying pronoun cases
- Identifying compound personal pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Identifying types of adjectives
- Identifying adverbs
- Identifying degrees of adjectives and adverbs
Lesson 3: Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
- Prepositions
- Identifying prepositions
- Identifying prepositional phrases
- Conjunctions
- Identifying conjunctions
- Working with clauses and conjunctions
- Interjections
- Identifying interjections
Lesson 4: Effective sentences
- Sentence formation
- Defining effective sentences
- Identifying sentences
- Defining the natural order of sentences
- Identifying subjects
- Identifying predicates
- Phrases and clauses
- Identifying phrases
- Identifying clauses
- Sentence classifications
- Classifying sentences
Lesson 5: Agreement rules
- Subject and verb agreement
- Identifying subject and verb agreement
- Identifying singular subjects
- Identifying compound subjects
- Identifying pronoun and antecedent agreement
- Identifying verb tense agreement
- Parallel sentence structure
- Making sentences parallel
Lesson 6: Improving sentence structure
- Sentence fragments
- Identifying sentence fragments
- Run-on sentences
- Identifying run-on sentences
- Active and passive voice
- Identifying passive voice
- Changing passive voice to active voice
- Split infinitives
- Identifying split infinitives
- Discussing sentence structure guidelines
Lesson 7: Word choice
- The importance of word choice
- Selecting the right word
- Misused words
- Identifying misused words
- Spelling errors
- Fixing spelling errors
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Attaching prefixes
- Attaching suffixes
Lesson 8: Punctuation and mechanics
- Punctuation to separate clauses
- Using commas
- Using semicolons and colons
- Using dashes
- Parentheses and apostrophes
- Using parentheses and brackets
- Using apostrophes
- Using hyphens
- Quotation marks and numbers
- Using quotation marks and ellipses
- Using italics
- Determining when to spell out words
- Capitalization rules
- Applying capitalization rules
Lesson 9: Synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Identifying synonyms and antonyms
- Homonyms
- Identifying homonyms