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21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons
21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons
21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons
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Don't let English grammar ruin your professional career!

Get hand-selected grammar lessons straight from a seasoned Business English professor who knows students' greatest troubles.

In an easy-to-understand approach, learn principle Business English grammar lessons.

Avoid simple grammatical errors while writing your memos or letters that could embarrass you in front of your colleagues and boss.

Take the quiz after each lesson and check your understanding.

Use the book as a reference, study aide for exams, or perfect classroom text.

Finally, take control and overcome your serious Business English grammar doubts.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 4, 2018
ISBN9781386605584
21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons
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Winn Trivette II, MA

Winn Trivette II, MA, is a CELTA-certified veteran English as Second Language professor, who currently teaches IELTS and TOEFL preparation to international candidates at a medical recruiting firm.

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21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons - Winn Trivette II, MA

PREFACE

THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING a copy of 21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons!

Your interest in English grammar is understandable given its importance in expressing, presenting, and selling your ideas to colleagues and clients.

Whether you write for business, university or just for pleasure, you will be much more competent and start to really understand how English works with 21 Top Business English Grammar Lessons.

This book is written for students and professionals who want to study the essential part of English grammar without the guidance of a teacher.

It is intended for pre-intermediate to advance level students who have fundamental questions about how the different parts of English grammar fit together.

How to use this book

The twenty-one units of grammar are not in any particular order. Each can be reviewed independently at the convenience of the student.  

Plus, you get a Bonus Lesson at the end of the text to further sharpen your grammar skills!

Exercises follow each presentation of grammar lessons which allow students to test their knowledge of each unit.

Answers follow each grammar exercise.

Finally, this book may be used simply as a reference without doing the exercises.

Good luck,

Professor Winn

About the Author

Professor Winn is an experienced English instructor who has been helping students meet their language and professional goals for more than 10 years.

p.s. Please consider 1-on-1 online lessons with Professor Winn to improve your (Business) English, write English better, or prepare for the IELTS or TOEFL.

Lesson 1:  Present Simple vs. Present Simple Continuous

Present Simple Usage

Talk about:

regular actions or events

statements of facts

facts about the near future

thoughts and feelings about the time of speaking

Present Simple Continuous Usage

TALK ABOUT:

statements, facts, true at the time of speaking, but not always

present plans for the future

Examples:

The stock market closes tomorrow at 4 p.m. (future fact)

The price of wheat is trending downward. (fact at time of speaking)

Ray Corp supports children literacy programs. (statement of fact)

The Board of Directors is meeting next Tuesday to discuss the company stock plan.  (future plans)

Exercise 1.1: Present Simple vs. Present Simple Continuous

DIRECTIONS:  Choose between the present simple and present simple continuous in the following sentences.

1. Tate Associates _______(sponsor) the Special Olympics in London next year.

2. CEO Franz Guerner often ______ (give) a presentation to all of his employees at the end of the year.

3. Unemployment usually _____ (lag) behind exports after an economic recovery.

4. The price of cocoa _____(soar) on news of political instability in the Ivory Coast.

5. More government regulation_____ (hinder)

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