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Goal
Apply grammar rules to edit your own writing for persistent errors.
Expand your repertoire of complex structures to make your writing
more polished and expressive.
Objectives
- Master the three basic types of sentence structure
- Clearly express relationships between ideas
- Identify and use essential verb structures correctly
- Troubleshoot problems with plural forms and articles
- Sharpen editing and proofreading skills
Methodology
Presentation, discussion, written exercises, composition, and
error analysis
Enrollment
4 - 8 participants
Scheduling
2-day workshop
Materials
LinguaTec Intensive Written Grammar training manual with
reference section
What You Learn
Sentence Structure
- Use simple, compound, and complex sentence structures for
variety
- Use appropriate transitions to express relationships between
ideas
- Avoide sentence fragments and run-ons
- Differentiate casual writing (e.g., e-mail) from formal writing
Verb Structures
- Describe present activities
- Report past activities
- Project future activities, deadlines and expectations
Relating Ideas
- Use adverb clauses to show relationships - cause and effect,
contrast and opposition
- Structure adjective and noun clauses correctly
Details
- Contrast infinitives and gerunds
- Troubleshoot articles
- Follow the conventions of subject-verb agreement and plurals
Suggestions, Recommendations and Proposals
- Use the subjunctive form
- Select appropriate infinitive and gerund forms
Reporting Ideas
- Choose the correct sequence of tenses
- Avoiding errors when using reporting verbs: explain, tell,
inform,
discuss, etc.
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