Duration: 1/2 Day Session (price for 2 sessions in a day)
Learning Objectives
Identify current thinking around punctuation and grammar
Demonstrate how to use punctuation effectively
Explain common mistakes
Course Content
- The evolution of P+G
- The importance of understanding P+G within a business context (and the difference for creative writing)
- Parts of speech
- How to use the key punctuation marks and common errors
- Current thinking on punctuation and grammar
- Take the test: The National Curriculum – what primary school children are expected to understand and apply (Modal verbs, fronted adverbials, various tenses, relative pronouns, subordinating and co-ordinating conjunctions, possessive apostrophes)
- Myths debunked – old rules that can be ignored
- Applying this knowledge in a business context – especially for those who edit or proofread their colleagues’ texts