Grappling with Grammar

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Grappling with Grammar


Dates:

16 May/20 June/18 July/10 October/21 November 2008 (a one-day course)

 

Price:

£349+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

 

"I feel much more confident now in making decisions on grammatical issues."

VOSA delegate



If you have a good grasp of the basics of grammar, Grappling with Grammar will sharpen your awareness, helping you to:

 

  • detect and correct poor grammar and punctuation
  • understand which 'rules' you (or your authors) can break
  • explain your editorial decisions.

Programme

  • Verbs, clauses and sentences
  • That or which? - understanding relative clauses
  • Verbal nuances - may/might, should/would, shall/will, the subjunctive
  • The dangling participle and other structural weaknesses
  • Split infinitives and other bugbears
  • How to use commas, semicolons, colons and dashes
  • The apostrophe
  • How to punctuate quotes
  • When to hyphenate
  • Consolidation

 

Who will benefit from this course?
Anyone who uses words - for internal or external correspondence, in publicity material or in an editorial context. Grappling with Grammar provides guidance and practice in specific problem areas, as well as consolidating punctuation skills. If you need a grasp of current grammatical terms and key concepts, as well as the basic principles of punctuation, we recommend Getting into Grammar.


Your tutor
Getting into Grammar and Grappling with Grammar are run by Andrew Steeds. After a spell in teaching and education research, Andrew worked as a publisher in three of the major UK educational publishing companies before going freelance in 1992. He now runs Simply Put, a company that offers writing, project management and consultancy to organisations that want to communicate more effectively with the full range of their readers.


Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.


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Dates: 16 May/20 June/18 July/10 October/21 November 2008

Price: £349+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

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Course title:
Grappling with Grammar
Course price:
£349 +VAT
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16 May 2008,20 June 2008,18 July 2008,10 October 2008,21 November 2008