Virtual Classroom

Making Sense of Grammar

Build your understanding of English grammar in this short session exploring core grammar principles and how they apply in practice.
Special Offer: Sign up for both Making Sense of Grammar and Making Sense of Punctuation and save £40.
DATES

  • 25.02.2027
  • 22.10.2027

TIME

10.00am–12.00pm

FORMAT

Virtual classroom via Zoom

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • 1 training session
  • Completion certificate
  • CIEP membership upgrade

PRICE

£60 + VAT

Looking for training for your team?
This course is also offered as Team Training for organisations.

Why should I take this course?

This webinar will help you gain a clearer understanding on various grammar principles.
This two-hour webinar will look at the main grammatical issues underpinning writing and editing. While AI programs can be of some help, it’s vital for editors to understand the fundamentals of grammar. This masterclass will give you the skills and the confidence to negotiate your way through the grammatical minefields that are a routine aspect of editorial activity.

Attendees will be able to post queries in the chat, and the tutor will respond to these after the session. The talk is supported with extensive reference material for participants to reinforce their understanding.
Benefits

Control how you learn & progress

Who is it for?

Anyone working in publishing or communications who wants to improve their grammar, including:
  • in-house and freelance editors, copywriters and project managers
  • marketing and PR staff
  • people who want to be more confident in their judgements on these issues and in their ability to defend their editorial and stylistic decisions.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this webinar, you will gain:
  • a clearer understanding of the main issues surrounding grammar
  • more confidence in your ability to make, and defend, decisions on grammar
  • knowledge of where to go to get answers to any outstanding questions you may have.

    You will also receive a set of reference materials to consult in your day-to-day work.

Programme

The webinar covers:

  • Verbs: the engine of the sentence
  • Clauses and sentences
  • Relative clauses: ‘that’ or ‘which’?
  • Three structural issues
  • Grammatical ‘rules’: myth or reality?

Special offers

Special offer

Save £40 on Making Sense of Punctuation

Enrol on Making Sense of Grammar and save £40 on Making Sense of Punctuation.
Details

What you need to know

Delivery

The course is delivered in 1 x 2-hour session on Zoom. Any information to be completed beforehand will be sent via email. 

Zoom

You will need to activate a free Zoom account to join the course. This takes 2 minutes and does not require any payment. It is purely for administrative purposes.

Certificate

Upon completing the course you will receive a certificate from the Institute of Publishing.

Accessibility

Please contact us with any accessibility or special requirements, for example having in-session captions or the learning materials sent to you in advance. 

Team Training

This course is available for in-house training, delivered either virtually or at your offices. The content can be tailored to meet your organisation's requirements.

Chartered Institute of Editing & Proofreading (CIEP) membership upgrade

Completing this course counts towards the continuing professional development (CPD) requirement of a CIEP membership upgrade. For more information about upgrade criteria, visit the CIEP Membership Upgrade Hub.

What our students say

I enjoyed the course – it was engaging. I now have a better understanding of some of the key grammar concepts.

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I enjoyed the webinar very much. This was a very good recap after I have finished the Essential Grammar training. 

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What our students say

The course was great. It gave me a much better understanding of some of the aspects of grammar I was struggling with.

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About the trainer

Andrew Steeds

Trainer
ABOUT ANDREW STEEDS
After an early career in teaching, educational research and educational publishing, Andrew Steeds went freelance, setting up Simply Put, a company focused on making unnecessarily complicated documents clearer and more accessible, in terms of both how they are written and how they are designed. For Simply Put, he works on his own, with designers and with others to support clients to communicate more clearly and more efficiently with their readers.

Andrew has been running courses for the Institute of Publishing (formerly the Publishing Training Centre) for 25 years. His main focus is on editorial activity, but he has an equal interest in the process of writing and the presentation skills of grammar and punctuation. The Institute of Publishing's Essential Grammar, an e-learning resource which he wrote in 2017, has had 2,000 enrolments to date.