Grammar Boot Camp – it’s training for your brain!
Whether you write reports at work, essays for university or blog for fun, grammatical errors can damage your credibility. Let Grammar Boot Camp’s complete coverage of grammar and punctuation essentials recharge your knowledge. By putting tools such as the Apostrophe Flow Chart, the Grammar Mind Map and the Sentence Construction Checklist at your disposal, Grammar Boot Camp will boost your ability and your confidence to communicate in writing. For complete details of what the course covers, scroll down.
Where do I register for Grammar Boot Camp?
To register, click here
When is Grammar Boot Camp held?
Choose from a number of convenient dates and times: either two full days (the Single Weekend Crash Course or the Select Sundays course) or one evening a week for four weeks (the Weekday Evenings Series).
Where is Grammar Boot Camp held?
Due to my relocation to country Victoria, Grammar Boot Camp is now held online.
How much does Grammar Boot Camp cost?
$880 per person (including GST). Comprehensive course notes are included.
What does Grammar Boot Camp cover?
If you need to catch up on the parts of speech, refresh your knowledge of sentence structure or just want to understand why a comma could cost you $2 million, this comprehensive overview is for you.
The parts of speech and sentence structure
- Nouns (common, proper, abstract, concrete, mass, count and collective), pronouns, verbs (including tense, aspect and infinitives), adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, determiners and interjections
- Clauses and phrases, including defining and non-defining clauses and phrases
- Indicative, interrogatory, imperative and subjunctive structures
- Subjects, predicates and objects
- Passive and active voice
- Dummy subjects
- Types of phrases and clauses, and dangling modifiers
- Common patterns of sentence construction
Punctuation
- Apostrophes
- Full stops and abbreviations, question marks and exclamation marks
- Quotation marks
- Colons
- Semicolons
- Commas