Admitting Mistakes and Making Promises

1. Admitting Mistakes

Mistake is a misunderstanding or misconception or an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgement caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.

When you have a mistake to someone, you need to plead your mistake, so the problem will be clear. 

Admitting Mistake is the way you to admit and ask for a sorry of your mistake.

Benefits of Admitting Mistakes:

• It demonstrates your courage.
• It demonstrates your humanity.

Asking about Possibilities, Expressing Curiosity and Desire, Expressing Views

1. Asking about Possibilities

Possibility is used when we are talking about the future, we often don't really know what will happen.

Expressing asking about possibilities:

• Would it be possible for (somebody) to …?
• Do you think it’s possible that ... ?
• What possibility is there that ... ?
• Is there any possibility that ... ?
• What's the possibility of ... ?
• What are the chances of ...?

Blaming and Accusing Someone

1. Blaming Someone

Blaming is when someone said that person did a mistake that should be her/his responsibility, like choosing wrong way.

Blaming is an expression that is used to say on somebody the responsibility for something done (badly or wrongly) or not done.

Business Letter

1. Definition

A business letter is:

• a letter written for formal or professional purposes.
• similar to a friendly letter, except for one extra part.
• should be short, courteous, and to the point.

2. Parts of a Business Letter

a. Sender's Address

The sender's address usually is included in letterhead. If you are not using letterhead, include the sender's address at the top of the letter one line above the date. Do not write the sender's name or title, as it is included in the letter's closing. Include only the street address, city, and zip code.

Complaining and Giving Instruction

1. Complaining

• To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

A complaint is…

Complaints are expressions of "displeasure or annoyance" in response to an action that is seen by the speaker as unfavorable.

Making a complaint:

• I do wish you could….
• Excuse me, I’m afraid… 
• I wish you wouldn’t mind…

Contrastive Conjunction and Modal Perfect

Types of conjunction

Different types of conjunctions link information in different ways. It is important to know which conjunctions establish which types of links.

There are five main types of conjunction in English.

1. Conjunctions of addition and replacement

Additive conjunctions simply add more information to what is already there. Examples of additive conjunctions include:

and, also, in addition, not only … but also, moreover, further, besides.

Example

The study used a small sample only and was strongly criticized for this reason. Furthermore, the initial premise of the research was

Direct-Indirect Speech

Direct Speech / Quoted Speech

Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech)

Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.

For example:

She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations." Or "Today's lesson is on presentations," she said.