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Has it been a while since you brushed up on your grammar skills? If you are writing a lot of documents or editing papers, this could be problematic. Check out, “Oh No, Grammar!”, below to brush up on your skills.
“Oh No, Grammar! (Part I)
Is that a groan familiar from your school days? If only you had listened, you’d know all about nouns, verbs, sentences and so on. Or perhaps you were part of the ‘lost generation’ at school between the late 1960s and 1990s, and so you didn’t have a formal education in grammar and punctuation. Do not fear: here are our top ten tips on grammar:
- Know your parts of speech. There are eight parts of speech, but the two that you need to know are nouns and verbs. A noun is a ‘naming’ word, such as dog, London, Janet or management. A verb is a ‘doing’ or ‘action’ word, such as lives, does or writes.
- Subjects and verbs must agree in number in a sentence. The subject of a sentence is the person who is doing the action or the thing that is doing the action. Consider this sentence: ‘The box of documents are in reception.’ This is incorrect, because there is only one box. Therefore, as the subject of the sentence is singular, use the singular verb to match and say ‘The box of documents is in reception.’”
Contact me if your office needs legal training. Stay tuned for more quick and easy grammar tips. Have a great day!