Grammar Course

Total Items: 4 Total Time: 10.00 hour(s)  

Summary:

This training is designed for users who want to improve their grammar skills in a business setting.

It examines sentence structure in detail, including parts of speech, subject/verb agreement, use of pronouns, and irregular verbs.

Punctuation is discussed, including the proper use of apostrophes, quotation marks, capital letters, numbers, and abbreviations.

Advanced topics include pronoun types, adjectives and adverbs, colons and semicolons, other punctuation, and modifiers.      

Learning segment 1: Fundamental Sentence Structures    

Summary:

This Learning segment provides instruction and practice in basic business grammar skills for the area of sentence structures.  

Objectives:

• Identify subjects, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and prepositional and infinitive phrases in sentences
• Use a verb that correctly agrees with the subject of a sentence
• Select pronouns properly and use them correctly in a sentence
• Use irregular verbs and their different forms properly and distinguish transitive and intransitive verbs  

Topics:

• Verbs and Subjects
• Prepositional Phrases
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• PronounsIrregular Verbs
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs    

Learning segment 2: Punctuation    

Summary:

This Learning segment provides an overview of the use of business grammar skills and how to use it to punctuate sentence structures.  

Objectives:

• Use apostrophes to indicate contractions and possessive constructions
• Use quotation marks to set off the words of a speaker or writer and to set off titles of short works and use punctuation with quotation marks
• Identify how to capitalize sentences, proper nouns, adjectives, and titles correctly
• Use numbers and abbreviations properly in written text  

Topics:

• Apostrophes
• Quotations
• Capital Letters
• Numbers and Abbreviations      

Learning segment 3: Complex Sentence Structures    

Summary:

This Learning segment provides an overview of the use of business grammar skills.  

Objectives:

• Recognize types of sentence fragments
• Define run-on sentences  

Topics:

• Types of Sentence Fragments
• More Sentence Fragments
• Run-On Sentences
• Correcting Run-Ons
• Commas
• Faulty Parallelism    

Learning segment 4: Complex Sentence Structures    

Summary:

This Learning segment provides an overview of the use of business grammar skills.  

Objectives:

• Recognize types of sentence fragments
• Define run-on sentences  

Topics:

• Types of Sentence Fragments
• More Sentence Fragments
• Run-On Sentences
• Correcting Run-Ons
• Commas
• Faulty Parallelism

Features:

• A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
• Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
• Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
• A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
• Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.
• A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.  

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.