English Grammar For Economics And Busin

English Grammar For Economics
And Business
For students & professors with English as a Foreign
Language
Patricia Ellman

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Patricia Ellman

English Grammar For Economics
And Business
For students & professors with English as a
Foreign Language

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English Grammar For Economics And Business: For students & professors with English as a
Foreign Language
2nd edition
© 2014 Patricia Ellman & bookboon.com
ISBN 978-87-403-0653-8

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English Grammar For
Economics And Business

Contents

Contents Acknowledgements

7

Introductory Remarks and Reference Works Consulted

8

1 Explanations of Common Errors in Alphabetical Order

22

2 Confusion Between Certain Words

86

3

Notes on Style

103

4 The Finishing Touches: 22 Basic Tips for the
Final Editing of Texts and Theses − a Checklist

114

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VAN KLANTEN KUNT
LEREN? VERTEL
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English Grammar For
Economics And Business

Contents

5 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Definite and the Indefinite Article (but Were too Confused to Know Where to Begin)

118

Section 1: Analysis of presence or absence of the definite articles in various foreign languages

123

Section 2: The first Diagnostic Test

133

Section 3: The most widely-used constructions using the definite and indefinite articles

140

Section 4:

Citations: e.g. White and Brown (2000) wrote the paper on this topic. or White and Brown’s (2000) paper on this topic is the seminal contribution. (see, e.g., Smith, 2000). (see, e.g., Smith, 2000; White, 2002; Young, 2008). name (e.g. Smith et al., 1999). Do not forget the full stop (.) after ‘al.’ if using British English; there is no full stop after ‘et al’ in American English.