About This Training Course

In this Grammar Skills Training Course, students will learn how to improve their business writing skills by understanding grammar rules.

Subjects Covered

This Grammar Skills Training Course will cover the following subjects:

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

Other Information

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