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Onsite Programs - Section Title
Intensive Written Grammar
Goal
Edit your own writing for persistent errors, and expand your repertoire of complex structures to make your writing more sophisticated.
Objectives
- Recognize and use the three basic types of sentence structure
- Clearly express relationships between ideasIdentify and use essential verb structures correctly
- Troubleshoot problems with plural forms and articles
- Develop accuracy in selecting prepositions for high-frequency expressions
- Improve grammatical accuracy through monitoring techniques
- Learn a variety of grammatically correct expressions for making recommendations and proposals
- Relate ideas with greater sophistication
Methodology
Presentation, discussion, written exercises, composition, error analysis. Enrollment is limited to 6 - 14 people per class.
Scheduling
2-day workshop
What You Learn
Sentence Structure
- Understanding the three basic types of sentence structure
- Using appropriate transitions
- Avoiding fragments and run-ons
- Differentiating casual writing (e.g., e-mail) from formal writing
- Verb Structures
- Describing present activities
- Reporting past activities
- Projecting future activities, deadlines, expectations, and contingencies
- Using passive voice correctly
- Differentiating transitive and intransitive verbs
- Relating Ideas
- Showing relationships, such as cause and effect, contrast and opposition
- Forming adjective and noun clauses correctly
- Details
- Contrasting infinitives and gerunds
- Examining prepositions
- Troubleshooting articles
- Agreement and plurals
- Suggestions, Recommendations and Proposals
- Using the subjunctive form
- Contrasting infinitives and gerunds
- Reporting IdeasChoosing the correct sequence of tenses
- Avoiding errors when using reporting verbs: explain, tell, inform, discuss
Non-native speakers of English
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