Business English, 10th Edition

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
ISBN 9780324789744......Page 3
Contents......Page 14
Unit 1 Laying a Foundation......Page 18
CHAPTER 1 Reference Skills......Page 19
Why Study Business English?......Page 20
Dictionaries......Page 21
Reference Manuals......Page 28
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 30
Learning Web Ways......Page 33
Chat About It......Page 34
CHAPTER 2 Parts of Speech......Page 36
The Eight Parts of Speech......Page 37
Summary......Page 41
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 46
Chat About It......Page 50
CHAPTER 3 Sentences: Elements, Varieties, Patterns, Types, Faults......Page 52
Sentence Elements......Page 53
Sentence Varieties......Page 55
Sentence Patterns......Page 56
Sentence Faults......Page 58
FAQs......Page 62
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 64
Chat About It......Page 69
Unit Review......Page 72
FAQs About Business English Review......Page 74
Developing Proofreading Skills......Page 76
Unit 2 Knowing the Namers......Page 78
CHAPTER 4 Nouns......Page 79
LEVEL 1 Classes of Nouns......Page 80
Making Nouns Plural: The Basics......Page 81
LEVEL 2 Challenging Noun Plurals......Page 82
LEVEL 3 Foreign Nouns and Special Plurals......Page 85
FAQs......Page 88
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 90
Chat About It......Page 97
CHAPTER 5 Possessive Nouns......Page 99
LEVEL 1 Showing Possession With Apostrophes......Page 100
LEVEL 2 Additional Possessive Constructions......Page 102
LEVEL 3 Challenging Possessive Constructions......Page 104
FAQs......Page 107
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 110
Chat About It......Page 116
CHAPTER 6 Personal Pronouns......Page 118
LEVEL 1 Guidelines for Using Personal Pronouns......Page 119
LEVEL 2 Challenges in Using Personal Pronouns......Page 121
LEVLE 3 Advanced Uses of Subjective-Case Pronouns......Page 123
Types of Pronouns......Page 124
FAQs......Page 126
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 128
Chat About It......Page 135
CHAPTER 7 Pronouns and Antecedents......Page 137
LEVEL 1 Fundamentals of Pronoun Antecedent Agreement......Page 138
LEVEL 2 Special Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement Challenges......Page 141
LEVEL 3 Advanced Pronoun Use......Page 143
FAQs......Page 146
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 148
Chat About It......Page 154
Unit Review......Page 156
FAQs About Business English Review......Page 157
Techniques for Effective Sentences......Page 159
Unit 3 Showing the Action......Page 164
CHAPTER 8 Verbs: Kinds, Voices, Moods, Verbals......Page 165
LEVEL 1 Kinds of Verbs......Page 166
LEVEL 2 Verb Voices......Page 169
Verb Moods......Page 170
LEVEL 3 Verbals......Page 171
Avoiding Misplaced Verbal Modifiers......Page 172
FAQs......Page 175
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 178
Chat About It......Page 187
CHAPTER 9 Verb Tenses and Parts......Page 189
LEVEL 1 Primary Tenses......Page 191
LEVEL 2 Present and Past Participles......Page 192
Irregular Verbs......Page 193
Three Pairs of Frequently Misused Irregular Verbs......Page 195
LEVEL 3 Progressive and Perfect Tenses......Page 197
FAQs......Page 200
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 202
Chat About It......Page 209
CHAPTER 10 Subject–Verb Agreement......Page 211
LEVEL 1 Locating Subjects......Page 212
Basic Rules for Subject–Verb Agreement......Page 214
LEVEL 2 Special Rules for Subject–Verb Agreement......Page 215
LEVEL 3 Additional Rules for Subject–Verb Agreement......Page 217
FAQs......Page 220
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 222
Learning Web Ways......Page 230
Chat About It......Page 231
Unit Review......Page 232
FAQs About Business English Review......Page 234
Techniques for Effective Paragraphs......Page 236
Unit 4 Modifying and Connecting Words......Page 242
CHAPTER 11 Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs......Page 243
LEVEL 1 Basic Functions of Adjectives and Adverbs......Page 244
Comparative and Superlative Forms......Page 245
LEVEL 2 Modifiers That Deserve Special Attention......Page 247
LEVEL 3 Adjective and Adverb Challenges......Page 250
FAQs......Page 252
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 254
Chat About It......Page 261
CHAPTER 12 Prepositions......Page 263
LEVEL 1 Common Uses of Prepositions......Page 264
LEVEL 2 Challenging Prepositions......Page 266
Ending a Sentence With a Preposition......Page 267
FAQs......Page 270
LEVEL 3 Idiomatic Use of Prepositions......Page 268
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 272
Chat About It......Page 278
CHAPTER 13 Conjunctions......Page 280
LEVEL 1 Coordinating Conjunctions......Page 282
Conjunctive Adverbs......Page 283
LEVEL 2 Subordinating Conjunctions......Page 284
Punctuation of Sentences With Dependent Clauses......Page 285
LEVEL 3 Correlative Conjunctions......Page 287
Sentence Variety......Page 288
FAQs......Page 290
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 292
Chat About It......Page 304
Unit Review......Page 306
E-Mail Messages and Memos......Page 310
Unit 5 Punctuating Sentences......Page 316
CHAPTER 14 Commas......Page 317
LEVEL 1 Basic Guidelines for Using Commas......Page 319
LEVEL 2 Special Guidelines for Using Commas......Page 322
LEVEL 3 Additional Guidelines for Using Commas......Page 324
FAQs......Page 327
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 330
Chat About It......Page 338
CHAPTER 15 Semicolons and Colons......Page 340
LEVEL 1 Basic Uses of the Semicolon......Page 342
LEVEL 2 Basic Uses of the Colon......Page 343
LEVEL 3 Special Uses of Semicolons......Page 345
Special Uses of Colons......Page 346
A Final Word......Page 347
FAQs......Page 348
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 350
Chat About It......Page 356
CHAPTER 16 Other Punctuation......Page 358
LEVEL 1 Uses for the Period......Page 359
Uses for the Exclamation Mark......Page 362
LEVEL 2 Uses for the Hyphen......Page 363
Uses for the Dash......Page 364
Uses for Parentheses......Page 365
LEVEL 3 Uses for Quotation Marks......Page 366
Uses for Apostrophes......Page 368
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 372
Chat About It......Page 379
Unit Review......Page 382
FAQs About Business English Review......Page 386
Professional Business Letters......Page 388
Unit 6 Writing With Style......Page 394
CHAPTER 17 Capitalization......Page 395
LEVEL 1 Basic Rules of Capitalization......Page 397
LEVEL 2 Special Rules of Capitalization......Page 400
LEVEL 3 Additional Rules of Capitalization......Page 404
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 410
Chat About It......Page 416
CHAPTER 18 Numbers......Page 418
LEVEL 1 Basic Guidelines for Expressing Numbers......Page 419
LEVEL 2 Special Guidelines for Expressing Numbers......Page 422
LEVEL 3 Additional Guidelines for Expressing Numbers......Page 425
Reinforcement Exercises......Page 430
Chat About It......Page 437
Unit Review......Page 440
FAQs About Business English Review......Page 441
Short Reports......Page 443
Appendix A Developing Spelling Skills......Page 448
Appendix B Developing Vocabulary Skills......Page 458
Appendix C Document Format Guide......Page 466
Self-Help Exercises......Page 482
Answers to Self-Help Exercises......Page 549
B......Page 554
C......Page 555
H......Page 556
N......Page 557
P......Page 558
S......Page 559
U......Page 560
Z......Page 561