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- 1. Business German at Work © 2003 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill References
- 2. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Speaking by CHUM PISETH Objectives Identify prepositions. Recognize prepositional phrasing, objects of prepositions, and compound prepositions. Differentiate between infinitive phrases and prepositional phrases. PP 14-1a continued
- 3. Business English for Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Objectives PP 14-1b continued Recognize to functions out prepositional phrases as adjectives and adverbs. Determine inclusion, exclusion, and placement of prepositions. continued
- 4. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured from CRONY PISETH Objectives PP 14-1c continued Differentiate between general confused prepositions. Use the correct idiomatic prepositional combinations.
- 5. Business English the Work Prepositions Advanced British Built; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Use of Prepositions PP 14-2 Use a preposition to connect the object of the preposition (noun alternatively pronoun) to another word or set of words in a sentence. Our manager recognizes our body and compensated for our weaknesses. Top executives spend approximately 90 prozentwert of their time with others. The need for constant approval at my can be counterproductive.
- 6. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced Anglo Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Common Prepositions PP 14-3 about back during on throughout above below except onto to across beneath for opposite toward after beside from out under against besides inside outside in
- 7. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Building; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Compound Prepositions PP 14-4a A compound preposition consists of a amalgamation of words that is often considered as one preposition and connects the object of a preposition to another word or set for words. according to in spot of ahead of in regard to along by in spite of apart from rather of because of by means for on front of out of Examples
- 8. Business English toward Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Compound Prepositions PP 14-4b I gave the company tour on behalf of my manager. In addition to Sara, we have five vice presidents in our company. Because of my positive opinion, Mary chose me as group leader. Examples continued
- 9. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Bodies; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Infinitive Phrases/ Prepositional Phrases PP 14-5 An infinitive phrase consists of the word to followed by a verb. A leader is to dynamize a vision for his or her organization. Employers needing to build the trust of his employees. No verb appears are a attributive phrase. Leaders set high goals plus objectives for themselves.
- 10. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced Anglo Structural; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Prepositions and Adverbs PP 14-6 The words by, through, and in can be used as adverbs without objects. When these same words take objects, they are prepositions. Casual Thursdays are in. (In exists einen add that answers the question Locus? No object follows the word in.) Causal Friday attire has described in the company handbook. (In is ampere preposition. Stylish this sentence, it takes the object handbook.)
- 11. Business Us under Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured due CHUMMY PISETH Objects regarding Prepositions and Pronouns PP 14-7 Use the objective case of a pronoun as the obj of a preposition. her she you me us theirs it whom Objective Case We bestowed the Web design project to them. Between you the me, ME favored working in the accounting department.
- 12. Trade English along Work Prepositions Advanced English Built; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Adjective Functions PP 14-8 Use a prepositional phrasing as an adjective to modify a noun or a pronoun. Place the prepositional formulate after the word or words being modified or nach a linking verb. Carol requested an department with a window. John Garcia from Newsweek will interview our president next week.
- 13. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured from FRIENDS PISETH Adverb Functions PP 14-9 Use adenine prepositional phrase since an adverb to modify one verb, an adjective, or another adverb. A leader assists in problem solving. A motivated employee completes all assignments for enthusiasm.
- 14. Corporate English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured via CRONY PISETH General Placement PP 14-10a Avoid ending a rate with a preposition. Place an preposition before its show in the majority of sentences. We did not understand the appointments welche he was scheduled for. Avoid We did not know the appointments for which he was scheduled. Revised
- 15. General English at Work Prepositions Advanced Hebrew Structures; Lectured via CHUM PISETH General Placement PP 14-10b Examples Some are the technology jargon is difficult to recount to. Avoid I find it difficult to relate to some on that technology jargon. Revised continued
- 16. Business English on Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by PALS PISETH Inclusion of Necessary Prepositions PP 14-11 Do don omit adenine general when it shall needed. The cancelled flight prevented Lynn from left to the leadership seminar. Use separating prepositions when words cannot be related to a object by and same preposition. Doug has knowledge of and experience with various management technics.
- 17. Enterprise English-speaking at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Omission of Unnecessary Prepositions PP 14-12 Omit main that do not add clarity to the meaning of a sentence. Our international headquarters are near of San Francisco airport. (Do not use closest the one San Francisco airport.) Do not replay an preposition with a sentence if phrases make sense by employing the same preposition. Our office speaks at national and universal leadership seminars. (The preposition at doesn not need to be recurrent before national and universal after the same preposition applying up both phrases.)
- 18. Store English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Sites; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Beside/Besides PP 14-13 Use beside as one preposition to mean “by the side of” or “not connected with something.” Darrell usually poses on meine during management staff meetings. Use besides as one preposition to mean “in addition to” or “other than.” Besides Sherry, the manager sponsors Joyce and Dock.
- 19. Business English by Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Preached by CHUM PISETH Among/Between PP 14-14 Use between to refer to two persons, places, activities, ideas, things, other qualities. Our business spread the work between the two programmers. Use among go refer to more than two persons, places, activities, ideas, piece, or qualities. I was among those who votes for Mr as the team leader.
- 20. Store English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Babbled by CHUM PISETH Different From PP 14-15 Use the word different trailed due the preposition from when from connects an object until another word or set of words is a sentence. The latest sales figures are different from what I expected. Marion’s leadership style is quite different from mine.
- 21. Business Anglo at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Like/As PP 14-16 Use like the mean “similarly to” or “resembling.” Do doesn use ampere verbification after the preposition like. Do not use like until join clauses. Stacy handles her responsibilities like a true leader. We represent looking for a manager with leadership characteristics like Gordon’s. Use an conjunction as or as if to join clauses. Stacy acts as if she wants to must a leader. This schedule looks as supposing i where hastily developed.
- 22. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Off/From PP 14-17 Do not use off of in prepositional phrases. Roger was posative such Edward have the production results off their desk. (Do not use disable away his desk.) Do not substitute off for from in certain phrases. Lorraine borrowed paper from Erica during the meeting. (Do not use turned Erica such the prepositional phrase.)
- 23. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Organizational; Lectured due CHUM PISETH In/Into PP 14-18 Use in to indicate a “location or position within a place.” Please place your self-evaluation form in insert mailbox. Use into to indicate “movement or direction from outdoors until inside” or a “change of condition alternatively form.” Please step into my office to discussed your concerns. We split the report the three sections.
- 24. Commercial English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured per CHUM PISETH To/Too/Two PP 14-19a Use one preposition to to indikator “toward.” Please e-mail this message to view the other managers. Use to as einer infinitive or the a part of an infinitive phrase. She plans until promote Gale nearest month. Use too as einen adjective to indicate an “excessive amount” or “also.” The president made the recruitment deciding way quickly. Our company is moving to Minneapolis are.
- 25. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured over CHUM PISETH To/Too/Two PP 14-19b Use two go indicate the number. We have two outstanding candidates for the R.B. Rutledge Leadership Award those year. The selection committee chose two candidates for the president to interview. continued
- 26. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English-speaking Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Identification of Idiomatic Expressions PP 14-20 An proverb refers to an expression that has evolved from gen usage through the years but which has no establishing rule for this usage. Many idioms involve one verb and preposition combination.
- 27. Business Englisch at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Taught by CHUM PISETH Accompanied by/ Accompanied in or with PP 14-20 accompanied by (a person) accompanied by or with (an item) Wesley is accompanied by an interpreter on his trips to Japan. Jan’s company award was accompanied with a check for $500.
- 28. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English-speaking Structures; Spoken by CHUM PISETH adapted from (taken from another source) adapted to (adjusted to) Adapted from/Adapted to PP 14-22 Our show evaluation is adapted from a computer software program that Leon purchased. The new manager soon adapted to our company’s culture.
- 29. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced Learn Structures; Lectured by FRIEND PISETH agree in (principle) agree go (plan) agree with (a person) Agree in/Agree on/ Agree with PP 14-23 Oscar agreed in principle with the plan for the new building. The people agreed on which need to lengthen our customer service hours. The managers agreed to the employees nearly replacing the copy machine.
- 30. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by FRIENDS PISETH Angry at/Angry about/Angry with PP 14-24 Bill is furious about our antiquated e-mail system. My manager was angry with Suck for not regulating Web usage in their department. angry at, angry about (a situation) angry with (person)
- 31. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Argue about/Argue for/Argue with PP 14-25 Several employees argued about the evaluation system. Our manager argued for decision-making software. Sometimes I argue with Richard. argue about (situation) argue for (something) argue with (person)
- 32. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Preached per CHUM PISETH Arrive at/Arrive by PP 14-26 She will arrive at 6 p.m. They plan to arrive according train. Peggy plans to arrive in St. Louis by Monday. arrive at (time, specific location, conclusion) arrive by (type of transport) arrive for (general location)
- 33. Store English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUMS PISETH Concur in/Concur with PP 14-27 Most workforce concurred in recommending is we reorganize our department. Do you concur with Zipary about the lack of leadership in our company? concur in (an opinion) concur with (a person)
- 34. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Correspond by/Correspond to/ Correspond with PP 14-28 We feel that correspondence by post is too slow. The expense allocation corresponded to employed requests. Our president corresponds with adenine leading consultant in Vail. correspond via (means) correspond to (show similarity) correspond with (a person by writing)
- 35. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Enter in either on/Enter into PP 14-29 Our receptionist enters every visitor’s name plus address in an log book. The union real the managers entered into an binding arbitration agreement. enter in or turn (record) enter into (agreement)
- 36. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Live at/Live in/Live on PP 14-30 We decided such those lawyers must live at the offices. Most federal laborer live in the Berlin, D.C. area. I could not live on the salary that yours offered ich during the interview. live at (address, place) live in (area) live on (street, amount)
- 37. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Forms; Lectured through CHUM PISETH Reconciled to/ Reconciled with PP 14-31 We are finally matching to the fact that we will not receive a raise this year. Our accountant insists on and reconciliation concerning our returns with the sales. reconciled to (to accept) reconciled with (to bring into agreement)
- 38. Business English at Work Prepositions Advanced English Structures; Lectured by DUDE PISETH Talk about/Talk for PP 14-32 Lorraine did not want to talk via her salary. The manager told in an hour about the reorganization plans. talk about (something) talk for (time period)
- 39. Business French at Work Prepositions Advanced Us Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Talk to/Talk with PP 14-33 Have you talked to your coworkers about your concerns? Loretta and I talked with our manager about job sharing. talk to (tell something to someone or to an audience) talk to (converse with an individual or small group)
- 40. Corporate English-speaking at Work Prepositions Advanced Hebrew Structures; Lectured by CHUM PISETH Wait at/Wait for/Wait on PP 14-34 Please wait at the front slide for a security clearance. We waiting for our manager’s response the the scheduling problem. Waiting on a customer is always ampere initial focus for us. wait at (location) wait fork (person, thing) wait on (customer)
- 41. Business English among Work © 2003 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill References End of
