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Course

Perfecting Your Grammar

Date: 27 to 29 July
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: #03-03 Ultro Building, (5 minutes walk from Changi Expo MRT)
Refreshments: lunch and two tea breaks daily
Fee: S$688/- (No GST)
  For other runs of this course, please click here. For advanced bookings, please send us an email with your details and the date of the runs.

Registration

 
Please register in one of the following ways:
 

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Information for overseas participants
 
For clarification, please call
Merle at (+65) 6581 0970 or email her.

Please make out cheque payments to 'TriLife Communications'  and send them to:

TriLife Communications, Woodlands Central Branch Post Office, P O Box 116, Singapore 917307

 

Location of Training Venue

 

Association of Aerospace Industries Singapore (AAIS)

1 Changi Business Park Ave 1,

#03-03 Ultro Building

Singapore 486058

 

See Map/MRT/Parking details

 

Other Courses

Writing Professional Letters and Email
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Presenting Like a Professional
Writing Brilliant Reports, Proposals and Staff Papers
Efficient Minutes Writing
Speaking English with Correct Pronunciation
Communicating Effectively Using Emotional Intelligence

Student Courses

 
Composition Writing Success for Primary 3/4/5/6 students
Essay Writing Success for Secondary and Junior College students
Comprehension Success for Primary, Secondary and Junior College students, please email Merle.
Grammar Success for Primary, Secondary, Junior College and adult levels, please email Merle.
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"Thank you very much for the interesting and great Grammar course over the last 3 weekdays. It was very informative and definitely helpful to me. I will be more careful in writing, especially in my tenses." Anna Song, Kumon Asia & Oceania Pte Ltd (Singapore Office)
 

Start Perfecting Your Grammar Here!

There are three main reasons why many of us still falter in grammar:

1) The sentence patterns in our mother tongues are different from the sentence patterns in English.

a) In our mother tongues, the subject in a sentence, does not agree with the verb, whereas in English the subject has to agree with the verb (and there are so many verbs to remember) for example: He plays, she plays, they play, I play

b) In Mandarin and Malay, there is only the present tense (Tamil uses some tenses) whereas in English there are many other tenses such as: Past Tense, Past Perfect, Continuous and Future Tenses. For example: He played, she had been playing, they were playing, I will be playing.

c) Many of us also seldom read English books and newspapers, therefore, we miss the opportunity of fixing these English sentence patterns firmly in our minds.

2) We translate directly from our mother tongues into English, for example Che Li Yu = Down here have. Then we speak and write  Singlish not English.

3) Many of us also assume that because most people around us speak and write English in a certain way, that they must be correct. But they may not be.

Do you think these sentences are correct?

If you think these sentences are correct, you'll probably need our 3-day comprehensive, 'Perfecting Your Grammar' workshop.

This workshop helps you fix firmly in your mind, all the most important aspects of grammar that we need to be effective speakers and writers at work and in every other communication situation in our lives.

Bonus Value 1: A workbook (with detailed explanations, examples and exercises), is given to you in the course. It also acts as a reference book and refresher course, if you need one.

Bonus Value 2: For one year after the course, you can ask the trainer by email, any questions you have on grammar.

 
What you learn:

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The main aspects of grammar such as:

·         Nouns

·         Verbs

·         Articles

·         Pronouns

·         Adjectives

·         Adverbs

·         Conjunctions

·         Subject-Verb Agreement

·         Tenses

·         Modals

·         Sentences

·         Clauses

·         Active and Passive Voice

·         Direct and Indirect Speech

·         Punctuation

·         Figurative Language such as Idioms, Proverbs etc

   
  Be able  to:

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Write and speak grammatically correct sentences

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Correct common vocabulary and grammatical errors

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Understand basic language construction

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Understand the finer points of using language

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 Become a more effective and confident speaker and writer
 
How you learn:
 

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Lectures

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Discussions

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Individual exercises

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Group exercises
 
Who should attend:

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Any adult who would like to revise and improve his or her grammar
 
What our participants say:

"Not a dull moment or redundant topic, all topics very useful."

"Highly competent trainer and approachable."

"Very satisfied with the course. Lecturer was smart in choice of examples."

"Very interesting and I enjoyed it."

“Learning grammar was taught in an enjoyable way.”

"Very good facilitator. Knows her grammar."

The trainer, is very friendly, open and helpful.”

“The grammar course is great. Keep it up.”

"Good instructing skills."

"The facilitator was knowledgeable."

The trainer is competent and shares her experience with us.”

"Very professional speaker."

"Very approachable and very efficient in her training. Well done!"

"She was most excellent in conducting her lessons. She is a very warm and funny person."

 
Profile of our Trainer, K Rajamanikam (Raja)
 
Consultant/TrainerK. Rajamanikam (Raja) has 18 years experience training adults in English and Business Communication skills. He has been conducting both spoken and written communication courses for clients such as MINDEF, HDB, NEA, ITE, CAAS and PSB. Some of these courses are:

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Public Speaking

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Train-the-trainer

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Business Communication

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Writing Letters and Email

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Writing Reports, Proposals and Staff Papers

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Writing Minutes of Meetings

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English Language
 

Participants to Raja’s courses have consistently rated him as ‘Excellent’.

He is also a local author who has published more than 60 books including fiction and supplementary books for the English Language.

 
Profile of our Trainer, Ms Merle Celine Magness
 

Director/TrainerMerle Celine Magness holds a BA (Distinction) from the University of South Australia in Communication and Media Management and has been trained as a trainer in The Singapore Institute of Management’s Course Leader’s Course.

She also holds a certificate in ‘Teaching English as a 2nd or Other Language’ from the Regional English Language Centre.

She is experienced in conducting English Languages Courses for adults in the public and private sector and she has written English educational supplementary books for Primary and Pre-University levels.

Participants in her courses have commented that she is a good trainer and is fun and friendly.

 
P/S: We also conduct customised in-house courses. Please call Merle at (65) 6581-0970 or email her for a discussion.

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