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Business English: A Practice Book

Chapter 32: Transcriber's Note:
By Rose Buhlig
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About This Book

Practical instruction presents English usage and composition tailored to commercial contexts, beginning with word study, pronunciation, spelling, and grammar to strengthen correctness and clarity. It then treats oral and written composition—choosing subjects, punctuation, sentence and paragraph construction, and business letters—with attention to spoken language and dictation. The final section analyzes common business situations and provides inductive, real-world exercises for manufacture, distribution, advertising, real estate, insurance, banking, and corporate correspondence. Emphasis falls on clear expression, persuasive tone, and plentiful practice problems designed to develop habits of precise, courteous, and effective communication in everyday commercial transactions.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] If one of the words so joined is plural, the verb should be plural.

[2] See note on page 115

[3] Loan for lend, though common in the United States, is not in approved use except sometimes in financial language.—Webster's New International Dictionary.

[4] Supply heading and introduction (see page 232).

Transcriber's Note:

Text uses both "to-day" and "today."

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

Pages 116-117, entry for "confide" was originally placed after "correspond." It was relocated to be in the correct alphabetical order.

Pages 171-172, the examples were placed out of order. The section beginning "reporter, business manager" to the end of the paragraph was originally located after a space following the Abraham Lincoln paragraph. The first part of the Abraham Lincoln paragraph originally ended with "nor a year it". The rest of that paragraph was originally located at the top of the next page. These paragraphs have been adjusted to read correctly. Links to images of the original pages follow.

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The remaining corrections made are indicated by faint dotted lines under the corrected text. Hover the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.