business grammar basics

By attending Business Grammar Basics workshop, Participants will learn:

• How to define the functions of the eight parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions
• How to skillfully combine words into meaningful sentences
• How to use words effectively and correctly
• How to form plurals and possessives correctly in participants business writing
• How to use words correctly, including some key rules on how to spell correctly
• The standard rules and guidelines for using punctuation appropriately
• How to correctly apply end punctuation, including the correct use and rules for periods, question marks, and exclamation points
• The rules for using different connecting and separating marks, such as colons, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens
• Basic sentence construction, including how to develop sentences that are logical, clear, and powerful
• The importance of subject-verb agreement, as well as agreement between pronouns and their antecedents
• How to identify and fix some of the most common types of sentence errors
• How to use commonly confused words correctly, including words that sound alike and those with related meanings