Bull's Eye Business Writing Tips

Tip # 254: Use these words and phrases to motivate:

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Tip #254:  Use these words and phrases to motivate:

• Will you help me?

• Congratulations!

• You were very kind.

• It's been a real pleasure.

Please help Laurie L. with her question: 

"Could you help me with prepositional phrases? My office is stumped as to whether or not a sentence is grammatically correct if it begins with a prepositional phrase.   The example we have is, "Due to heavy rain, the house has flooding in the basement."

I remember being instructed to never begin a sentence with 'due to'. I feel the sentence should read: "The house has flooding in the basement due to heavy rains."  Is it correct both ways?

Also, are words and phrases that are accepted in the English language also grammatically correct? What I mean is that some people in my office feel that both sentences are acceptable, but they are not both grammatically correct. Now I'm confused!

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Here are some books on business writing that I recommend. Bull's Eye Business Writing is also available from Amazon.com. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin  The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor)  More books on business writing and other business subjects  (available from Amazon.com).

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