Course Description
What You'll Learn
- Identify and correct the most common grammatical mistakes in business writing
- Distinguish commonly confused word groupings, word pairs, and apply appropriate idiomatic expressions
- Apply the basic parts of speech, including nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verb voice, mood, and tense
- Use prefixes, suffixes, plurals, possessives, and basic spelling rules to spell more confidently
- Apply punctuation correctly, including end punctuation, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, apostrophes, parentheses, and quotation marks
- Recognize well-written and complete sentences using parts of a sentence, phrases, clauses, and subject-verb agreement
Key Takeaways
- Business language draws from a wide range of expressions and concepts, reflecting people from countries across the globe and from every social class.
- Successful business people need to be clear communicators in both the written and spoken worlds.
- The course helps learners work confidently with words and punctuation and recognize well-written, complete sentences.
- Mastering grammar is compared to riding a bicycle or driving a car: once the beginning rules are learned, mastery and confidence naturally improve over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is designed for business people who want to be clear communicators in both written and spoken communication and to improve their confidence with business grammar.
What does this course cover?
It covers commonly confused words and idiomatic expressions, parts of speech, verb voice, mood, and tense, spelling rules including prefixes, suffixes, plurals, and possessives, abbreviations, capitalization, numbers, punctuation, and sentence structure such as phrases, clauses, and subject-verb agreement.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course develops skills in grammar, advanced business language, business English, business writing, and formal grammar, and supports business English certification.
What will this course help me do?
It helps you identify and correct the most common grammatical mistakes, work confidently with words and punctuation, and recognize well-written and complete sentences.
