The eLearning Center for Gatlin Education Services

This series 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.

Fundamental Sentence Structures
Time: 3.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course 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
* Pronouns
* Irregular Verbs
* Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Punctuation
Time: 2.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course 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

Complex Sentence Structures
Time: 3.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course 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

Advanced Grammar
Time: 2.0 hour(s)
Summary:
This course provides an overview of advanced grammar and how to use pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, special punctuation, and modifiers.
Objectives:
* Use pronouns correctly.
* Identify the difference between adverbs and adjectives.
* Define the grammatical rules that govern the use of special punctuation marks.
* Identify and correct misplaced and dangling modifiers.
Topics:
* Pronoun Types
* Adjectives And Adverbs
* Colons and Semicolons
* More Special Punctuation Marks
* Misplaced And Dangling Modifier