Grammar
You will receive 1 credit (CE) upon completion of this course.
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Course Description
Course Outline
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
More Information
| Language | English |
| Course Length | 22.00 hours |
| Duration of Access | 1 year |
| Continuing Education Credits | 1 |
| Instructor | Self Study |
| Vendor | Webucator (Read more about Webucator accreditation.) |
| Course Certification | Otterbein College awards 1 CEU for every 10 hours of successfully completed course work. For the average completion time of any course, see the course outline. Select the category of courses you are interested in and then select the specific course. Average course completion time is listed under "Time" on each course catalog page. Students pay Otterbein College a $15 (subject to change) CEU application fee for each course completed for CEU credit. |
| Prerequisites/Audience | This series is for all who want to improve their grammar skills. |
| Requirements/Materials Included | The following are the minimum user system requirements necessary to enjoy maximum access to the HTML-based courses: 200MHz Pentium with 32MB Ram. 640 x 480 256-color video (800x600 is recommended). Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher required. An Authorware plug-in is used for course simulations but is not required to run the courses. It can be installed the first time you take a course by following the instructions shown on the Web page. The Macromedia Flash Player is used for course introductions and activities, but is not required to run the courses. It can be installed the first time you take a course by following the instructions shown at login. Netscape and AOL browsers are not supported. We do not formally support our courseware on the Macintosh platform. If you choose to try to use the courses on a Macintosh, you need to be aware that they will not have full functionality, specifically within the Authorware simulations and the supplied files. However, if you are a Macintosh user and make use of a Windows emulator, Authorware simulations and supplied files may function. Since we do not test with Macintosh or Windows emulators, we cannot guarantee our courses on the Macintosh platform. The courses play well through 56 KB modems. Of course, play is faster as connection speeds increase. The traditional HTML-based courses are designed for highly efficient, real-time presentation with an average page size under 20 K. The Business Skills Video courses use streaming media at a rate of 15 Frames Per Second. The media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives rather than waiting for the complete file to download. |