Throughout the business community, ambitious individuals who work in highly competitive environments know the impression they give in their business communications often makes the difference between career failure and success.
Read More...Tip 2 to Sound Intelligent in Your Corporate Communication
Before you send that intelligent-sounding email, letter, or proposal, remember to check it at least once for grammar and spelling errors. My executive clients tell me they continue to be surprise by obvious mistakes in many of the corporate communications they receive.
Read More...Tip 1 to Sound Intelligent in Your Corporate Communication
When you make the following grammar mistakes, you will sound less intelligent than you actually are. Effective communication, both in speaking and writing, make an important and significant impression. Most likely, your English teacher gave you the following advice. In case you have forgotten, here are three business communication tips to improve the impression you make to your prospects, clients, and senior executives.
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On TV’s The Office, Creed challenges Michael’s grammar: “Michael, he wasn’t inferring, he was implying. You were inferring.”
Infer and imply are often confused, but in this case Michael was technically correct. He was doing both, first inferring something and then implying it. He could hardly imply something that he didn’t know or hadn’t thought about.
Read More...Sales Presentations: Discussions of Grammar Can be Dangerous!
Some experts contend that the subjunctive is now obsolete in English, yet we should cling to it for its elegance and to win bar bets. Without it, we wouldn’t have one of the most perfect verses in the English language, written by A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh:
Read More...Sales Presentation Skills & A Comma
As a sales presentation skills trainer I am always impressed with my clients who take the comma seriously. Enjoy our latest contribution by Grammer Granny and editor Eleanor Dugan.
Read More...Presentation Skills Tip: The Less, the Proud, the Marines?
Here is another article with a presentation skills tip by author and editor Eleanor Dugan my Grammar Granny. Hope this will help you sound more intelligent.
Read More...Words have power! Grammar Granny Dugan and Rex Harrison say “The French Don’t Care”
chimney—even before the Mary Poppins song lyric (“Chim chiminey, Chim chiminey, Chim chim cher-ee!”**), some people were adding an unneeded syllable and saying CHIM-en-nee. You only need two: CHIM-nee.
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