Why is it important to use grammar correctly?

Standard English has become the language of business in many parts of the world. Although using good grammar cannot guarantee your professional success, poor grammar can prevent your career from taking off.

Using grammar correctly projects a professional image for you – it shows that you care enough about your work to write grammatically correct messages. Poor grammar, on the other hand, may project a sloppy, ignorant or indifferent image.

Although some grammatical mistakes are minor and can be overlooked, others could be serious enough to distort your message, and you need to know how to avoid them.

What do you gain from this two-day workshop?

This workshop builds upon the foundations of grammar - the parts of speech. You will learn how each part of speech should be used correctly, and how people usually make mistakes with these parts of speech. More importantly, you will learn how to avoid these common errors.

This workshop also discusses grammar technicalities like the use of punctuation and sentence constructions. You will test your own understanding of the learning points through exercises, peer-teaching activities and grammar games.

Workshop Objectives

1. Understand the foundations of grammar.
2. Know the pertinent points in the use of each part of speech.
3. Be aware of the common errors made in grammar, and how to avoid these errors.
4. Be aware of serious grammatical errors that will distort the meaning of your message, and how to avoid these errors.
5. Understand the principles of sentence construction, and how to write clear and concise sentences.

Workshop Highlights

• A preview of the parts of speech

• Proper and common nouns
• Countable and uncountable nouns
• Determiners

• Subjective and objective case pronouns
• Reflective case pronouns

• Comparative forms of adjectives
• Compound adjectives

• Subject-verb agreement
• Transitive & intransitive verbs
• Commonly confused tenses - Simple Past, Present Perfect and Past Perfect
• Modal verbs
• Conditional clauses

• Adverbs in use
• Common mistakes with adverbs

• The role of prepositions
• inconsequential mistakes with prepositions
• Serious mistakes with prepositions

• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions

• The use of interjections in business writing

• The comma
• The semicolon
• The colon

• The simple sentence
• A sentence fragment
• The four sentence structures

I have realised some of the common mistakes I have made. Now I am able to communicate more appropriately and effectively in my work.
Finance Officer,
Raffles Institution

This workshop has helped me to improve and perfect my business letters, minutes and report writing with fewer grammatical errors.
Administrative Assistant,
AWWA ReadyCare Centre

This workshop has enhanced my understanding of grammar foundation which is useful when I write business proposals. Very good!
Senior Information Technology Officer,
Building and Construction Authority