Customer Reviews

Business English

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The basic set up of the book (grammar to start, practice of business English in the final chapters) is fine. Although most of the time it is fine, the language in the second part seems a little bit dated. But my main problem with the book: there are so many mistakes that it seems if nobody edited the thing.
You'll find questions in the exercises of which the grammatical explanation has not been giving. In several exercises you are asked to mark the subject or the verb of a sentence, but when you check your answer in the back of the book it turns out the correct answer according to the writer is a word that isn't even in the sentence. This constantly makes you doubt yourself; is it another mistake of the writer or did I answer this incorrectly and maybe I did things wrong while the book said my answer was right? Sometimes when more then one answer is possible it only gives you one.
The grammar is a bit basic and sometimes important exceptions are left out of the book - if you'd only follow the rules in this book it will lead to making errors in for instance punctuation, pluralizing and with the possessive S.
The format and design of the book are also pretty old fashioned and sometimes plain wrong when there are blanks to fill out an answer where there shouldn't be one and vice versa.
This book has potential but they completely screwed it up to the point that I wondered if maybe I was sold a misprint. I have not listed half the mistakes and problems of the book, so I do not recommend you buy (this edition of) this book.

I am currently using Geffner's new 5th Edition, c. April 2010, and unfortunately
many of the answers in the back of the book are incorrect. This is adding
confusion to my studies and my quiz scores are lower than they could be.
I am currently an online student and study by myself. I was hoping a prior
edition of the book would contain the correct answers (at that time), but I
see a reviewer of the 4th Edition has complained about the same problem.
It is too bad because the order and contents of this book are very good.
I have emailed the publisher asking for a corrected answer section but have
not heard back at this time.

I teach an ESL course in business English and this helps both the teacher and the students. Starts with basic grammar and moves on to tone and other more advanced topics.

This is a great source of information. I am very happy with my purchase.
thank you