f you are required to use English at work but feel you need to build up your grammar, Collins’ new Business Grammar & Practice is the perfect solution.
Well-known Business English experts Nick Brieger and Simon Sweeney guide the user through 72 units to explain the structure of the English language. Examples of real usage are followed by a simple but thorough explanation of each grammar point. Then, a range of practice exercises cement your understanding.
All of the sample sentences are taken from the COBUILD corpus. This ensures that you don’t learn artificial language – instead you get to grips with the vocabulary and structures that are used in the business world around the globe today.
Work through the book from start to finish for a comprehensive course in intermediate grammar, or pick and choose the topics of most interest to you.
Topics covered:
• Main tenses (presents, pasts, futures, conditionals)
• Auxiliaries and modals
• Active vs. passive voice
• Verb irregularities
• Sentence and clause types
• Nouns
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Determiners (articles, pronouns, demonstratives…)
• Prepositions
CEF level: B1–B2