Do you want to speak better English<\/span><\/b> <\/span>at your office? Yes, of course. But do you think it is possible for you to make it? Yes or no. Why? It all depends how much you know about English<\/b><\/span>. What does that mean? It means how English functions<\/span>, or how you use it to say what you want to say<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n\n
(pic source<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n
So, how does this relate to your office English? There is an example<\/span> for you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
TALKING TO YOUR (careless) JUNIORS<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Do you have juniors who are careless<\/b><\/span>? How do you make an instruction <\/span>to them? What follows is a sample sentence to Mr. Careless<\/span>, your junior.<\/p>\n
You have to be careful.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
What if you are really angry<\/span> with Mr Careless? But at the same time you don’t want to make things personal <\/span>by scolding him. You may ad<\/span>d something before ‘have’ (the verb<\/span> of the sentence). Add what? A ly-word<\/b><\/span> (people usually call it adverb<\/span> as it is usually added near a verb.) So what is the ly-word to add?<\/p>\n
You definitely<\/span> have to be careful.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/a><\/div>\n
What if you are really<\/span> angry<\/b><\/span> with him? You may add another ly-word<\/b><\/span>:<\/p>\n

\n<\/span><\/p>\n
I really<\/span> want to see some improvement <\/i><\/b>(from you). <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n(pic source<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n
Well, but before you tell Mr. Careless<\/span> the bad news, or before you want to give him a lesson, do you think you need to give him a signal<\/span>, ‘preparing’ him to hear something bad? Once again, you need a ly-word to do it. What ly-word is it?<\/p>\n
Frankly<\/span>, I have seen very little improvement.<\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/div>\n
So, ‘frankly’ means you want to be frank at one level<\/span>, but at another, it also means you want to be direct <\/span>and Mr. Careless, get prepared.<\/p>\n
To put all things together, it is something like:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n
Well, frankly<\/b><\/span>, Mr Careless, I have seen little change since last time we talked. And I think you definitely <\/b>have to be more careful as I really<\/b> want to see some improvement. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n(pic source<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n
However, what if you want to talk to your boss<\/span>? Or you want to be more friendly<\/span> and polite<\/span>? We will talk about it at the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you want to speak better English at your office? Yes, of course. But do you think it is possible for you to make it? Yes or no. Why? It all depends how much you know about English. What does that mean? It means how English functions, or how you use it to say what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spoken-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FreeGreatPicture.com-29052-interesting-material-of-commerce.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}