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Common business word partnerships

2016/9/20

‘Do’ is a very common verb in business English, and it is used with nouns to form word partnerships which have several meanings. Here is a list.

*We can use it with ‘favour’ to ask people to do things for us. ‘Can you do me a favour?’

*We can use it to describe how hard you are working, when you are doing your best effort for someone. ‘I am doing my best.’

*We can use it to describe a certain set of actions which are often (but not always) about research or study. ‘We are doing some research into this.’

*We can use it with nouns to mean ‘do business’.

Task 1: Sort the nouns in the word partnership table into the correct meaning.

a good job of Ving/n.p.

something about n.p.

all we can to V

some sightseeing

the calculations

everything possible to V

some maintenance

s/th for s/o

likewise

some self- evaluation

some research (into s/th)

s/o the courtesy of Ving

everything we can to V

one’s utmost to V

some study on n.p.

everything in our power to V

s/o the favour of Ving

some tests on n.p.

one’s best to V

some shopping

business (with s.o.)

s/o a favour

s/o a favour	everything we can to V	some study on n.p	business (with s.o.)

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*2016/09/23更新

Here are the answers for the sorting task we did at the beginning of the week. Study the table and look at the example sentences.

s/o a favour	everything we can to V	some study on n.p.	business (with s.o.)
s/th for s/o s/o a favour s/o the favour of Ving s/o the courtesy of Ving	all we can to V everything possible to V everything we can to V one’s utmost to V one’s best to V everything in our power to V a good job of Ving/n.p.	something about n.p. some sightseeing some maintenance some self-evaluation some study on n.p. some tests on n.p. some shopping some research (into s/th)	the calculations likewise business (with s.o.)

We are planning to do some tests on the product next week.

We will do everything we can to make sure you receive the goods on time.

We still need to do some more research into this before we do the cost calculations.

We will do everything in our power to improve the situation. We hope you will also do likewise.

※商英教父【權威課程】

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