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The earliest version of videotelephony developed since the 1920s by Pacific Bell and first introduced to commercial market in 1964 by AT&T.
What is a picturephone?
They are used in series (apples, pears, and bananas), in direct address (e.g. Peter, good job!), and with parenthetical expressions (e.g. after all,...).
When do you use commas?
They can be academic, technical, or business-oriented and often have three parts: Introduction, findings, and recommendations/summary.
What are reports?
A grammatical construction showing ownership, origin, authorship, or measurement of an item by someone or something usually indicated by an 's.
What are possessives?
A written elaboration on why you qualify for a vacant position.
What is a cover/ing letter?
The sentence becomes: "Sam said he had been on the phone for two hours". / It will become Past perfect progressive.
How can you turn this statement by Sam, "I have been on the phone for two hours." into reported speech? / What becomes of present perfect progressive in reported speech?
Like "opening fillers" and "wordy phrases", certain words and phrases can be omitted in Business English because they are needlessly repetitive.
What are "redundant" words?
A report recommending a course of action that justifies or suggests something such as buying equipment, changing a procedure, hiring an employee, consolidating departments, or investing funds.
What is an internal proposal?
Yes, but you should try to avoid it, because some people think it is poor grammar, a paraphrased sentence will often sound better.
Can you put a preposition at the end of a sentence?
It includes a brief greeting at the beginning of business letters and emails. Some writers use e.g. "Dear Erica" followed by a comma or a colon. Others are more informal with "Hi, Erica"; "Hello, Erica"; "Good morning"; or "Greetings".
What is a salutation?
They are two common verb forms often confused. One is formed by verb + ing, the other is formed by to+verb. "forget", "remember" and "stop" can be followed by either of them but with a change of meaning.
What are gerunds and infinitives?
They are e.g. definite and indefinite articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, numbers, distributives, differentiators and question words.
What are determiners?
Beginning of sentences, proper nouns and proper adjectives, celestial bodies, the pronoun "I", titles of people (if not used in general), places you could put on a sign (unique), main words in the titles of publications, academic courses and degrees, etc.
Which words do you capitalize?
They are abbreviations formed from its component initial letters and often pronounced as a word e.g. ASAP, CEO, COGS, IPO, CSR, SWOT, etc.
What are business acronyms?
e.g. (drive) fast, (arrive) late, (work) hard, (go) far, (wake up) early, (meet) daily, (stand up) straight, (dance) lively
Which adverbs have the same form as adjectives?