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Communicate With Confidence
Course Code: DED409
School: Distance-Education.org
Description
Don't know where to put that apostrophe? Bamboozled by "who" and "whom"? It's hard to communicate with confidence when you're uncertain about the rules of English grammar.
Here's an easy and fun way to learn. Packed with fun explanations, examples, and memory devices, this course will teach you the crucial aspects of grammar. Its four lessons get right to the point, targeting the most common real-life misunderstandings and mistakes that regularly surface in the workplace and at home.
The course will help you reverse bad habits and ingrained mistakes -- and enable you to communicate with confidence!
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Distinguish between the various parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives.
- Differentiate a complete sentence from a sentence fragment.
- Identify direct and indirect objects and distinguish between active and passive voice in written communication.
- Determine proper pronoun usage ("I" or "me," "who" or "whom").
- Identify and correct misplaced modifiers.
- Choose proper punctuation.
- Differentiate between the plural and possessive usage.
- Choose correct words to express themselves more accurately.
- Use memory tricks and devices to remember what they have learned.
Assessment
- After each lesson, students will take a multiple-choice quiz.
- After the final lesson, students will take a multiple-choice exam.