English 1 Unit 1 Advanced grammar awareness Paola Catenaccio

Advanced Language Awareness for Corporate and Institutional Communication Aims: – Acquiring theoretical and practical knowledge of more advanced areas of English grammar and usage – Emphasis on written/spoken corporate and academic communication

TopicRequired reading Prescriptive grammar and formal writing style PunctuationCarter, R. / McCarthy, M Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge: CUP: pp Logical connectors Subject-verb agreement and ‘dangling’ participles Formal lexicogrammatical choices Topicalization and fronting

THE INS AND OUTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN SOUTH EASTERN ASIA Organisational culture is a huge and hard concept that affects lots of aspects of an organisation. Past and recent theory are explored and relevant industry examples are drawn from the service industry specifically hospitality. This area has been chosen because the hospitality industry has now become very prominent in South East Asia, instead until twenty years it was not as developed, therefore it has produced many different organisational cultures (Brotherton 2003). The paper evaluates on whether it’s possible for organisations to manage culture within companies. So what steps could be taken that may enable managers to further understand the effect of the organisations culture on internal, and more importantly external customers, and business operations? (Solomon, Bamossy and Askegaaard 2002).

Organisational culture is a huge and hard concept that affects lots of aspects of an organisation. Past and recent theory are explored and relevant industry examples are drawn from the service industry specifically hospitality. This area has been chosen because the hospitality industry has now become very prominent in South East Asia, instead until twenty years it was not as developed, therefore it has produced many different organisational cultures (Brotherton 2003). The paper evaluates on whether it’s possible for organisations to manage culture within companies. So what steps could be taken that may enable managers to further understand the effect of the organisations culture on internal, and more importantly external customers, and business operations? (Solomon, Bamossy and Askegaaard 2002) -Punctuation -Subject-verb agreement -Logical connectors -Register

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. 'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. 'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.' The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear- like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.’

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Why do we use punctuation? A Panda eats shoots and leaves. A Panda eats, shoots and leaves. Similar function as rhythm and intonation in speech Marks grammatical and semantic boundaries

Let’s find the «rule» In each of the extracts in your handout punctuation is used incorrectly (it may be redundant, missing, or the wrong mark may be present). – Work with a partner and identify and correct the mistakes. – Try and agree on the precise reasons for your corrections.

1.The decisions about congestion parking that have been pushed through by the City Council without proper consultation, are now beginning to cause, even more problems for motorists.

Punctuation between obligatory sentence constituents 1.The decisions about congestion parking that have been pushed through by the City Council without proper consultation are now beginning to cause even more problems for motorists.

(Adv) Subject Verb Object (Adv) The decisions (Adv)SubjectPredicator/ verb Object(adv) The decisions The decisions about congestion parking that have been pushed through by the City Council without proper consultation….. are now beginning to cause problems even more problems for motorists

2. My BSc courses included design computer networking, and programming.

Punctuation between phrases/clauses of the same type 2. My BSc courses included design, computer networking(,) and programming. Life-support machines are no different in principle from medicines, surgery, talking theraphies (,) or other treatments.

3. The figure represented a systematic thorough collection of data. 4. His boss was a nice, elderly, French man with an open smile and a strong handshake.

Punctuation with attributive adjectives 3. The figure represented a systematic, / (and) thorough collection of data.  SAME adjective type 4. His boss was a nice elderly French man with an open smile and a strong handshake.  DIFFERENT adjective type

To ‘comma’ or not to ‘comma’? A 1950s English angry young man. A shoddy inconclusive analysis of the problem. A range of priceless antique wooden chairs. A 1950s English angry young man. A shoddy, inconclusive analysis of the problem. A range of priceless antique wooden chairs.

5. Subsequently the aircraft underwent numerous design changes, before it was incorporated into the Type 4 jet aircraft. 6. If we work at night and sleep during the daytime we have difficulty in adjusting our habits.

Punctuations and adverbial phrases and clauses 5. Subsequently, the aircraft underwent numerous design changes before it was incorporated into the Type 4 jet aircraft. 6. If we work at night and sleep during the daytime, we have difficulty in adjusting our habits.

Sentence constituents (Adv)SubjVerbObj(Adv) Subsequently, If we work at night and sleep during the day, before it was incorporated into the Type 4 jet aircraft.

7. In her article “Pronunciation Matters” which appeared in TESOL Journal, Holt explains that comprehensibility can be a key factor in accent training. 8. Music therapy, a growing field of nursing has been shown to reduce the stress of aging patients.

Punctuation and non-integrated elements 7. In her article “Pronunciation Matters”, which appeared in TESOL Journal, Holt explains that comprehensibility can be a key factor in accent training.  non restrictive relative clause 8. Music therapy, a growing field of nursing, has been shown to reduce the stress of aging patients.  non-restrictive apposition

9. London is a very cosmopolitan city, there are people from many cultures living there, you still need to master good English to get by. 10. Dr Jones liked the new plan, it had a cost effective approach and was backed up by thorough research.

‘comma splices’ NEVER use a comma to connect two independent clauses.

Avoiding ‘comma splices’ NEVER use a comma to connect two independent clauses. Remove the comma and replace it with a full stop Insert a coordinating conjunction after the comma Remove the comma and insert a semicolon or a dash ( -) Turn the second clause into a relative clause Remove the comma, replace with a semicolon and add a conjunctive adverbial followed by a comma

Avoiding ‘comma splices’ 9. London is a very cosmopolitan city. There are people from many cultures living there, but you still need to master good English to get by. 10. Dr Jones liked the new plan, which had a cost - effective approach and was backed up by thorough research. Dr Jones liked the new plan; it had a cost-effective approach and was backed up by thorough research.

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