Collins English for Business: Pre-Intermediate Grammar & Practice

 

CEF A2 – B1

If 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 84 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 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 and Adverbs
• Determiners (articles, pronouns, demonstratives, quantifiers…)
• Prepositions