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Grammar & Punctuation

Part 1: The jargon of language

 

Session 1.          Something about grammar

Parts of Speech

            Nouns

            Capital letters

            Adjectives

            Pronouns

 

Session 2.         Something about grammar (continued)

Verbs

Adverbs

Switch on your sentences

What is a sentence?

Conjunctions define sentence type

Word order and emphasis

 

Part 2:   Potentially perfect punctuation

 

Session 3.              Full stops

Commas

Brackets or parenthesis

Apostrphes

Ellipsis

Practice exercises

 

Session 4.             Semi colons

Colons

Em dashes

Question marks

Quotation marks

Practice exercises

 

Delivery will include the following: Initial discussion with questions on session the previous week’s work.       Presentation of material         Group discussions         Small group tasks and discussions          Individual activities, including short workbook activities Each participant will be required to bring three samples of their writing to the session. These will be for their own use and will not be circulated. Samples can be emails (1/2 page of text), letters, briefs, minutes etc.         Critiquing activities