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    Say What You Mean!: Move up the Social and Business Ladder--One Perfect Word After Another.
    Say What You Mean!: Move up the Social and Business Ladder--One Perfect Word After Another.
    Say What You Mean!: Move up the Social and Business Ladder--One Perfect Word After Another.
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    Say What You Mean!: Move up the Social and Business Ladder--One Perfect Word After Another.

    By Andrew Bobby

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    This is not a textbook! I repeat. This is not a textbook! Too many people go through twelve years of education, and some people, four years of college and still make the same simple few grammatical errors over and over again. Is the correct word "I" or "me", "bad" or "badly", "lie" or "lay"? Don't go through life making the same simple grammatical errors and confusing your sophisticated listener. Whether that sophisticated listener is your boss in a business setting or a person you are speaking to in a social setting, "SAY WHAT YOU MEAN" and say it with confidence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 23, 2011
    ISBN9781456730079
    Say What You Mean!: Move up the Social and Business Ladder--One Perfect Word After Another.
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    Andrew Bobby

    The author has been an English teacher for a number of years. He has also taught at various levels including high school, university and extension courses. While a principal of a high school, he earned a doctorate at Fordham University. As a retiree, he was amazed at the many simple grammatical errors made by prominent, professionals and, in general, people who should communicate effectively. As a result, this booklet was written in order to improve communication and thinking using the English language. A very simple example is when a person says, "He don't have no money." Does he mean he has money or does he mean he has no money?

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      Say What You Mean! - Andrew Bobby

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      QUOTATIONS

      PURPOSE

      Double Negative

      Like and You know

      Lie or Lay

      Good and Well

      Linking Verbs

      Pronoun Choice

      Prepositions

      Pronouns-Nominative Case and Number

      Pronouns-Objective Case and Number

      Agreement(Subject & Verb)

      Singular Agreement:Indefinite & Personal Pronouns

      Wrong Words

      Regardless and Irregardless

      Reason and Because

      Bad or Badly

      Its and It’s

      Affect/Effect/Effect

      Between and Among

      Try to/Try and

      Don’t and Doesn’t

      Verbs: Regular and Irregular

      Verbs - Irregular

      Verb Tense - Distinction of Time

      Who or Whom

      Shall/Will

      Than

      Pronunciation

      Vocabulary

      The Interview

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      INTRODUCTION

      The way to use this booklet is to find the words in question in the Table of Contents page in the front of this booklet. Turn to the page and read only the page of concern.

      Some explanations are deliberately repeated. They are repeated because the explanation also applies to another concept. Also, the booklet’s premise is that you learn through repetition. Repeat the correct choice over and over and get it in your ear.

      Remember to write your own sentences in the space provided on the left hand side of the booklet.

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      QUOTATIONS

      Speech is power, speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

      Emerson

      Speech is the index of the mind.

      Seneca

      I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

      Sigismund—at the Council of Constance

      In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

      Kahil Gibran

      The Prophet

      PURPOSE

      The purpose of this publication is to help people who are unsure of

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