Grammar Best Practices For Effective Business Writing Training Ppt

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This slide illustrates the punctuation marks for business writing. It includes comma, periods, question marks, quotation marks, colons, and parentheses.

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This slide showcases the significance of comma in a sentence. A comma is a punctuation mark representing a pause in a sentence or the separation of items in a list. It also mentions the rules for using commas.

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This slide depicts an activity that will help the trainees understand punctuation usage in sentences for business writing.

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This slide showcases the usage of a period in a sentence. It highlights that periods should be used at the end of all complete sentences in business writing.

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This slide depicts information regarding usage of question marks in a sentence. It mentions that a question mark indicates that a sentence is a question.

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This slide showcases the information regarding quotation marks. It demonstrates that quotation marks separate a group of words from the rest of the text. It is also used when you want to use someone else's words in your writing.

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This slide illustrates the information regarding colons usage in the sentences. A colon must be used at the end of sentences in business writing to indicate that the following text explains the words just before the colon.

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This slide depicts information on the use of parentheses in a sentence. When the information you're inserting into a sentence won't fit into the flow of the business writing, use parentheses. It also mentions that parentheses help clarify the sentence by indicating that the data is essential but not part of the sentence's flow.

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This slide illustrates information regarding capitalization for business writing, such as capitalizing the first word of a sentence, proper nouns, titles etc.

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This slide depicts an activity that will help the trainees in understanding the capitalization rules for professional business writing.

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This slide depicts the information regarding active and passive voice. It highlights that the subject is the doer of the action in active voice sentences, generally containing a straight subject-verb sequence with the subject executing the action (verb) whereas in passive voice sentences, the action is done on the subject.

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This slide illustrates information regarding the usage of active voice in business writing. It mentions that active voice is preferred because it is more concise and clear to the audience. It also helps in achieving clarity in business writing.

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This slide illustrates information regarding the implementation of passive voice in business writing. Passive voice is preferred when a writer wishes to de-emphasize an object.

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This slide depicts a meme that shows the difference between active and passive voice.

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This slide depicts an activity in which the participants will be asked to convert the sentences from passive to active voice. The doer of activity is named first in an active sentence, before the verb. The doer (if stated at all) appears in a phrase after the verb in a passive sentence.

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This slide shows the summary of best practices of grammar.