Through exercises and case studies, participants review the rules of grammar–including those for sentence structure, punctuation and word usage–and apply them to their own documents.

Who Should Attend

• Business writers of reports, letters, and memos who demand correct business English.
• Administrative or executive assistants who routinely revise correspondence under the signature of superiors.
• Managers, supervisors, and editors who review and evaluate their colleagues’ rough drafts.

Course Topics
In this six-hour workshop, you will learn these tips for correct grammar:

• the parts of speech
• the mechanics of sentence structure
• avoiding dangling participles and other cliff-hangers
• punctuation: colon, semi-colon, comma
• possessives
• correct use of pronouns
• avoiding sentence fragments and comma splices
• word choice and positioning within sentences