Business English comprises everyday business talks, casual meetings as well as understanding texts and publications on Business News and Economic reports.
The sentences in such kind of texts may contain complicated multiple structures which may be quite confusing for beginners to understand.
Let’s check some examples below.
Read the sentences, identify their grammar structures and try to interpret them in your own words.
- The world’s fascination with Labubu has almost tripled Pop Mart’s profits in the past year – and, according to some, even energised Chinese soft power, which has been bruised by the pandemic and a strained relationship with the West.
- A major part of Pop Mart’s sales were so-called blind boxes – where customers only found out what they had bought when they opened the package.
- It was the Labubu sales that fuelled Pop Mart’s growth and in December 2020, it began selling shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
- The majority stake of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball franchise is being sold in what will mark the most expensive sale of a US sports team in history, according to a source familiar with the deal.
- Lakers legend Magic Johnson, who previously owned a stake in the team, said fans should be ecstatic about the sale and that Mr Walter will carry on the team’s legacy – noting his ownership of the Dodgers led to a World Series win.
- Companies, especially in the tech sector, have been investing heavily in AI in recent years, spurred on by technological advances that have made it easier than ever for chatbots to create code, images and text with limited instruction.
- In his memo, Mr Jassy said Amazon was using AI in “virtually every corner of the company” and he expected the technology to eventually perform routine tasks, such as shopping and daily chores.
- Construction is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from the ashes of its violent past it is also giving unexpected opportunities to women like Fathi Mohamed Abdi and Saadia Ahmed Omar.
- While many Somalis chose to leave, they stayed, driven by a passion to rebuild, despite the fact that an insurgency was being waged by al-Shabab, a group linked to al-Qaeda.
- Sand from Somalia’s long coastline is often used to make cement – a practice that is generally discouraged and, in many circumstances, restricted by international building standards because the high salt content can cause the corrosion of steel.
Follow-Up
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