Collins Business Grammar & Practice

Collins Business Grammar & Practice, Pre Intermediate--------------------------------------------------A comprehensive and clear guide for those looking to improve theirEnglish grammar for use in the workplace. If you are required to useEnglish at work but feel you need to build up your grammar, Collinsnew Business Grammar & Practice is the perfect solution. Well-knownBusiness English experts Nick Brieger and Simon Sweeney guide the userthrough 84 units to explain the structure of the English language.Examples of real usage are followed by a simple but thorough explanationof each grammar point. Then, a range of practice exercises cement yourunderstanding. All of the sample sentences are taken from the COBUILDcorpus. This ensures that you don't learn artificial language - insteadyou get to grips with the vocabulary and structures that are used inthe business world around the globe today. Work through the book fromstart to finish for a comprehensive course in pre-intermediate grammar,or pick and choose the topics of most interest to you. Topics covered:* Main tenses (presents, imperatives, pasts, futures, conditionals)* Auxiliaries and modals * Voice - active vs. passive constructions* Irregularities * Sentence and clause types * Nouns * Adjectives andAdverbs * Determiners (articles, pronouns, demonstratives, quantifiers...) * Prepositions CEF level: A2-B1 ALSO AVAILABLE: Collins BusinessGrammar & Practice: Intermediate--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Nick Brieger has worked around the globe in the fieldsof language teaching and learning, communication, team building andintercultural training. He has worked with a wide range of major internationalorganisations. In addition to his training activities, he is the authorof more than 20 books in the field of language, communication and culture.Simon Sweeney is a Senior Lecturer in International Businessat the Sheffield Business School. He has written numerous textbooksfor international English and business communications skills. He beganhis ELT career with six years in Italy and Spain and since then hasworked in a variety of teaching and training contexts in the UK withclients from across Europe, Japan, and China.