Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. In English, most sentences using the conditional contain the word if. Many conditional forms in English are used in sentences that include verbs in one of the past tenses. This usage is referred to as "the unreal past" because we use a past tense but we are not actually referring to something that happened in the past. There are five main ways of constructing conditional sentences in English. In all cases, these sentences are made up of an if clause and a main clause. In many negative conditional sentences, there is an equivalent sentence construction using "unless" instead of "if".

In this article we publish Grammar reference section from Business Result, Unit 2 complimented with a test.

In this section you will have an opportunity to check your knowledge of the material covered in the course book unit by unit. Each unit has the following sections - Working with words, Business communication skills, Language at work, and Practically speaking. These sections deal with core vocabulary associated with the unit theme, key functional expressions, and related grammar. 

You may find our phrase bank very useful as it is presented in the form of audible dialogues which makes it very easy to learn and practice. The bank has sections for all possible situations which you may come across at business meetings, discussions and presentations. Listen, read, repeat and memorize!

On this page you will find Glossary for each unit of the text book presented in the form of flash cards.

Asking for help and advice

Formal emails are used when the writer is asking advice from someone outside their company, someone they don’t know very well, or someone they consider to be more senior to them. Informal emails asking for advice would most likely be sent to colleagues at a similar level in the company, or to people the writer knows relatively well.