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Description

Business Writing Accuracy Level 1: Revisiting the Rules, Getting Agreement Right and Proofreading Your Work

Rebuild simple reference points so you no longer hesitate over grammar choices and can proofread your writing with confidence

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

Written accuracy remains a source of anxiety for many professionals. The fear of making a mistake slows drafting down, leads people to reread a five-line message ten times and sometimes to avoid certain documents altogether. The rules learned at school have blurred over the years.

Two days to put back in place the rules that matter most in professional writing: noun and modifier agreement, the tenses used day to day, common participle forms and the confusions that appear most often. Progress is made through short exercises and guided corrections.

Learning objectives

  • Apply the rules of agreement between nouns determiners and modifiers
  • Use the tenses most common in professional writing without error
  • Form and use past participles correctly in everyday cases
  • Distinguish the most frequent grammatical confusions and homophones
  • Proofread a short document using a structured error-detection method

What makes this programme different

Positioning test at the start of the programme to target the points to work on
Exercises built from real business documents rather than literary texts
A personal reference notebook completed throughout the two days

Programme

1Going Back to Sentence Basics

Knowing what governs what

  • Word classes and their function within the sentence
  • Identifying the subject and the verb
  • Subject-verb agreement with distant or compound subjects
  • Punctuation that supports understanding

2Nouns and Modifiers

The most visible errors

  • Plurals of simple and compound nouns
  • Agreement of modifiers and complements
  • Countable and uncountable nouns quantifiers and numerals
  • Use of each every all and possessive forms

3Verb Tenses and Past Participles

Choosing the right form

  • Present past and future forms of common verbs
  • Regular and irregular endings often confused
  • Past participles in perfect and passive constructions
  • Imperative forms and polite requests

4Frequent Confusions and Proofreading

Building a checking method

  • Homophones such as their there and they're
  • Its and it's affect and effect who's and whose
  • Limits of automatic spelling and grammar checkers
  • A multi-pass proofreading method

Who is it for

Any professional who wishes to regain confidence in their day-to-day writing regardless of their starting level

Prerequisites

Ability to read and write English in a professional context

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.