Nobody likes to complain — or do you? In business, it’s often necessary to complain, but you don’t want to make any mistakes if you do. And you definitely don’t want to make a mistake if you’re responding to a complaint.
In informal chat messages, native speakers are often careless when it comes to grammar rules — or they deliberately ignore them to make their messages look how spoken English would sound.
Knowing when, where and how to use adverbs of frequency is an advanced language skill. You don't think it is? Then try this test and see if you get 100 per cent!
Time expressions indicate when something happens or how long it lasts.
Here, we look at advanced aspects of expressions that tell us how often something happens.
In this test, we review modal verbs for possibility and certainty. Which modal verb is needed here? "I'm quite interested in moving into marketing. I might/must apply for the new position that opened up last week."
I usually avoid talking about grammar in this blog,
leaving that up to my colleague Deborah Capras, who knows much more
about this kind of thing. But a recent trip to London inspired me to
look at the topic of nouns and verbs.
Imagine that you have to make plans with a colleague in your next phone call. Would you know which expressions to use? Would you also know how to use them in a grammatically correct way?
Do you ever have problems understanding what was really said in a meeting? Would you know how to ask for clarification? Complete this statement: "I’m sorry — I didn't _____ that."
"Minimum space, maximum information" lautet das Konzept der Reihe. Jeder Titel fasst zu einem ausgewählten Thema Schlüsselwörter, Formulierungen und Regeln zusammen. Zum Nachschlagen und Lernen.