Business English for Success

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Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Coordinating Conjunctions You can also fix run-on sentences by adding a comma ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Writing at Work Figure 1.4 Sample e-mail Isabelle’s e-mail opens with two fra ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Exercise 5 A reader can get lost or lose interest in material that is too den ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Writing Application Using the six basic sentence structures, write one of the ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 1.2 Subject-Verb Agreement Learning Objectives Define subject-verb agreement ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Regular Verbs Regular verbs follow a predictable pattern. For example, in the ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org In this sentence, the subject is mother. Because the sentence only refers to ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Irregular Verbs Not all verbs follow a predictable pattern. These verbs are c ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Exercise 2 Complete the following sentences by writing the correct present te ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Compound subjects combined with or and nor are treated separately. The verb m ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org The following is an example of a subject and verb separated by a dependent cl ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org The indefinite pronoun everybody takes a singular verb form because everybody ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Here or There In sentences that begin with here or there, the subject follows ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Exercise 3 Correct the errors in subject-verb agreement in the following sent ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org My sister and brother cleans up after themselves. _________________________ ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org Imagine that you are a prospective client and that you saw this ad online. Wo ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org An advertisement for a potential company A memo to all employees of a partic ...

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 1.3 Verb Tense Learning Objectives Use the correct regular verb tense in bas ...

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