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Now let’s have a look at the verb ‘put’. This verb looks very easy as it’s so short. However, in business English there are so many uses for this verb, that it’s quite a difficult verb to use. It’s worth learning to use it well, however, as it is a very high frequency verb, and therefore very useful. Let’s begin with the most frequent word partnerships.
The word partnerships with ‘put’ can be divided into 6 very general groups of meaning.
One group means write or record: ‘Let me put you on our mailing list’.
Another group means begin functioning: ‘We need to put this into effect by next week.’
Another group is word partnerships used to show priorities between things: ‘We need to put the client first at all times.’
Another group is word partnerships with a very general negativemeaning: ‘My boss is really putting pressure on me to resign.’
Another deals with relationships between people: ‘I’m putting you in charge of the team.’
And finally, ‘put’ can combine with nouns to give a more abstract meaning: ‘Let’s try to put this problem into perspective here.’
Task 1: Sort the following language items with put into the table below. Look at the examples.
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*2016/04/01更新
Check out your answers in the table below.
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