BUS-105 Business English

Credits: 3
Contact Hours: Lec 3
Tier Rate: Tier I
This course will provide a review of parts of speech and their routine functions: plurals and possessives; antecedents; verb tense; transitive and intransitive verbs; active and passive voice; subject-verb agreement; comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs; prepositional phrases; coordinate, correlative and subordinate conjunctions. Also included will be a review of the mechanical aspects of business communication: punctuation, abbreviations, capitalization, number expression rules, appropriate word choice, sentence construction, parallelism and editing and proofreading documents.