# Grammar Essentials (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

Your company's writing reflects your professionalism, intelligence, and expertise to the outside world. Embarrassing grammar blunders like misspellings, misused words, and weak sentence structure can confuse your audience and chip away at their confidence in your business. Even the most advanced writing and editing software programs miss significant grammar errors. In Grammar Essentials, you'll learn how to become your own editor.

This grammar course provides a thorough review of grammar rules. You'll learn how to spot common grammar errors, write effectively for different audiences, and determine the correct form of a word based on its part of speech.

## What you'll learn

- Identify and correct common grammar errors that weaken professional writing
- Choose the correct form of a word to write with clarity and precision
- Adapt your writing style to communicate effectively with different audiences
- Build confidence as your own editor through a thorough review of essential grammar rules

## Curriculum

#### Identifying Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs

- Identify Parts of Speech
- Use Nouns
- Use Pronouns
- Use Verbs

#### Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs

- Use Adjectives
- Use Adverbs

#### Identifying Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections

- Use Prepositions
- Use Conjunctions
- Use Interjections

#### Identifying Rules

- Monitor Sentence Structure
- Monitor Modifiers
- Avoid Common Errors

#### Identifying Correct Punctuation

- Use Parentheses Correctly
- Use Commas, Semicolons, Colons, Em Dashes, and Quotation Marks Correctly
- Use Numbers, Symbols, and Capitalization Correctly

#### Identifying Sentence Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices

- Identify and Resolve Sentence Fragments
- Identify and Resolve Run-ons and Comma Splices

#### Improving Word Choices

- Identify Commonly Misused Words
- Identify Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

#### Writing Effectively

- Write with Purpose
- Consider the Audience
- Consider the Context

#### Editing Effectively

- Use Correct Spelling
- Check Your Work

#### Appendix A: Commonly Misspelled Words

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $325