Advanced Prepositions in English: 10 Corporate Grammar Traps You Must Avoid
Corporate Error Surgery: Mastering Prepositions in Professional English Corporate Error Surgery: Mastering Prepositions in Professional English Small words carry big credibility. In meetings, emails and reports, one wrong preposition can make an otherwise strong sentence sound unpolished. This quiz helps you diagnose the slips professionals make most often. 10 questions B1–C1 About 5 minutes Why do smart professionals still make these errors? Most corporate errors are not random. They come from translating patterns from another language, or from copying a pattern that works with a similar verb. We say talk about , so discuss about feels natural. We say place emphasis on , so emphasize on slips out. Verbs and adjectives often have fixed partners, called collocations. Some take no preposition at all; others need one particular preposition, and a different one changes the meaning. In this quiz, every wrong option is a real, tempting pattern. Choose the one a careful ...