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Mar 21, 2016
SkillPath Staff
Do you spend way too much time checking and double-checking your work for grammar and spelling errors — and you’re still nervous when it goes out the door? Find grammar rules confusing, frustrating, or just plain boring?
When you make a grammar mistake, it’s more than just a fleeting embarrassment. It can cause your message to be dismissed and your professional reputation to suffer. That’s not a risk you can afford to take. Try using these simple grammar rules to make sure you come across as the professional you truly are!
Basic Structural Components of Good Business Writing
Complete sentences contain a subject and a verb and can stand alone.
Misplaced Modifiers
Phrases and clauses can be confusing if they are placed inappropriately in a sentence.
Place the modifier near the correct word it modifies.
Run-On Sentences
Learn to identify and eliminate run-on sentences (two or more complete sentences without a semicolon, period, or conjunction separating them).
Instead write:
Parallel Construction
Parallel construction adds clarity, elegance, and symmetry to your writing. To be grammatically parallel, align words, phrases, and statements: noun with noun, verb with verb, and phrase with phrase.
SkillPath Staff
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