You want to improve your English, or Business English, right? But, do the following happen to you? You have learned a lot of vocab, but somehow you can’t use them at your presentations or talk to friends who are westerners. Or, You have tried very hard remembering sentences in English, but when you talk, you still […]
Only Two Ways to Agree (with someone)? Do you know how many? How many what? How many ways are there for you to agree with your coworkers? Well, there can be lots of ways, right? But to make English easier, you may group them into 2 ways only. Which two? To agree with Baby Verbs […]
A. When you do a presentation in English, are you afraid that you may do it with wrong grammar? When you chat with a new co-worker, will you say something like: ‘Where are you come from?‘, which is wrong, absolutely wrong. There is an easy way to make you speak English with confidence. How? […]
Summary: The post is about how to make sentences with reference to finite and Non-finite Verbs, which in the funny terms of this post are named Big Verbs (finite) and Small Verbs (non-finite). As in some languages such as Asian ones the ideas (or concepts) of finite verbs do not exist, this post attempts to explain […]
Do you want to stand out at a meeting? Do you want to impress your coworkers? So you probably have to make suggestions, right? Now read the following suggestions. I suggest to enter the China Market. or Our department planned expanded the market share. If you say something like the above, your co-workers will laugh […]
Summary: This post is about how to group verbs into different folders so that it iseasier, if not funnier, for you to learn verbs in English, Business English in special. In a word, it is also a simplified version of verb groupings from the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (p.361-364). Verbs (2): How many verbs are there (Part I)? […]
Summary: You are busy writing an email so that your boss Mr Big will get your reply soon. But do you know that ‘I will reply your email soon’ is not English. Simply put, it is wrong. A. What is wrong? Really? Why? In English, it is weird, if not grammatically incorrect, to reply […]
