Excerpt from The Essentials of Business English My dear Student: In order to make sure of your reading this preface I am putting it into the form of a personal letter. You should never fail to read the title-page and the preface of your book. You will sometimes find explanations and points of view there that will light up the whole book for you. In this preface I want to give you some simple practical directions for doing the work the book calls for; to tell you what you need not expect to get out of it; and to suggest to you how to get out of it the utmost help it has for you. 1. I want you to do all the work. Some of it may seem simple and familiar. But such parts are stepping-stones and are necessary. You have noticed that when the team first runs out on the foot-ball field, they toss the ball and run about like children. They are "limbering up"; and the process is necessary. So I want you to take the easy sentences and exercises as limbering-up movements. If you do you will scarcely notice that they slowly grow more complex. Do everything you are asked to do, and do it as well as possible. 2. You can see that I have written it air as simply as it could be written, using as few technical terms as possible. But I beg you not to be frightened at the names of things in grammar and the other branches of language study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.