Business English/Business Communication

Liability: Legal responsibility. Premium: Payment of insurance. Comprehensive:  All embracing; Covering all e.g., a comprehensive vehicle policy. Indemnify: to protect or secure against damage, or loss, for e.g Insurance indemnifies the policy-holder against consequences of the risks covered. Void: Not valid; no longer binding. Contingency: Chance occurrence; something that may happen. Ascertain: To find out for ...

The ability of a language user lies in using a right word in a right context. This ability enables one to encode or express ideas in a better way. To attain this end, one must be able to group together of individual word-meaning or phrase-meanings that generally share the same ...

There are many things a person should before writing a paragraph or drafting the report. One should first prepare of assemble your material and then plan how you are going to write the report. The preparation and writing of a report falls into four stages: Assembling the material Planning the report Drafting the ...

What are Proverbs? Proverbs are 'Pearls of Wisdom'. Proverbs necessarily need to: Be popular and memorable: e.g All's well that ends well. Be concise and to the point: e.g. Practice makes perfect Provide sensible advice: E.g., first thrive and then wive Contain unchanging truths based on experience over the years. E.g., Honesty is the best policy Most proverbs exhibit simple ...

An auxiliary is a 'helping verb', used to make the form of another verb. The following is the list of auxiliaries. Example: Be, May, Might, Ought, Have, Shall, Should, Used, Do, Will, Would, Need, Can, Could, Must, Dare Exercises of Auxiliary Verbs: Exercise 1: Choose the correct form of the verbs: Why did you ...

Active Voice: A verb is in the Active Voice when its form shows that the person or thing denoted by the subject does something; or, in other words, is the doer of the action. The Active Voice is so called because the person denoted by the Subject acts. Passive Voice: A verb is ...

Idioms may be defined as expressions peculiar to a language. They play an important role part in all languages. Many verbs, when followed by the various prepositions or adverbs, acquire an idiomatic sense; eg. He backed up (supported) his friend's claim (they are similar to phrasal verbs). Metaphors also enter ...

A phrasal verb is a verb usually followed by preposition. For example (go/look/be, etc) +(in/out/up/down, etc) Got in: Ann opened the door of the car and got it. (= into the car) Go in: I waited outside the house. I didn't go in. Go out: The car stopped and a woman got up (= out ...

In a simile a comparison is made between two objects of different kinds which have however at least one point in common. The Simile is usually introduced by such words as like, as, or so. Examples of Metaphors: As big as a elephant As black as a coal As blind as a bat As bold ...

An adverb is a word that tells us more about a Verb. An adverb "qualifies" or "modifies" a verb (The man ran quickly). But adverbs can modify adjectives (Tara is really beautiful), or even other adverbs (It works very well). Many different kinds of word are called adverbs. We can usually ...