4. Grammar Revision

Identify the following grammar patterns:

Chapter 2

1. “Then you must have left something out.”

2. “Candida juggled candidates and clients with ease, arranging interviews,… negotiating contracts, rewriting CV – and that was just a morning’s work.”

3. “Teddy agreed to having a drink at Jules Bar.”

4. “Arriving at the front entrance of Steinberg’s office development, Teddy found Glory parked in front, the engine of her Mercedes purring like a large tiger.”

5. “…she wondered what sort of a monster Jack Delavigne was, to have let his son die.”

6. “She doesn’t seem to do much except go to parties.”

7. “She’s done really well, given how late she started.”

8. “I shouldn’t really have come to see you.”

Chapter 3

1. “She was the first in and the last to leave.”

2. “Shall I lend you mine?”

3. “After an hour’s meeting Teddy had not only satisfied herself that Dieter was a suitable candidate for the position at FRG Barnekov, but had managed to tempt him to agree to meet with her client without disclosing the name of the firm.”

4. “If the interviewee smelt a rat, his mouth was likely to close.”

5. “If I were a younger man, I’d play my career differently.”

6. “I could have leant forward and kissed him if I hadn’t been so mortified.”

7. “No, she won’t even speak to me on the phone.”

8. “You will remember that at our last review we raised doubts.”

9. “Far be it from me to suggest that you should change.”

10. “It may, of course, be a question of culture, but I can’t help feeling…”

11. “Jack found his response easier to handle if his criticism had been met by pleas for a second chance.”

5. Economic Focus

5.1 Bring out the economic meaning of the underlined phrases:

Chapter 2

1. “The computer had been instructed to search for candidates whose… primary product experience lay in equities.”

2. “All the guys on the floor know that it stands for mental defective.”

3. “He’s off limits, they used to be a client and their staff are barred for another 12 months.”

4. “He works for a French stockbroker.”

Chapter 3

1. “It was a conversation that would demand all Fitz’s powers of manipulation and tact: skills that he had developed as a senior executive at Steinberg’s.”

2. “She negotiated a high package to transfer from the States.”

3. “If Fitz was in the process of trying to run down the proprietary trading desk then Mike would fight him all the way.”

4. “But in the meantime, we can keep our overheads down and not worry Norm.”

5. “It’s no longer the old days of the 80s, when all you had to do to make a buck was to put on a smart suit and hand out your card. The only way to die rich these days is to shoot yourself before you go broke.”

6. “We are all going to tighten our belts.” “If I were younger, my objective would be to make as much money as I could in the short term and then set up independently.”

7. “It’s a merchant bank.”

8. “The company was Astra – one of the biggest stocks in the Swedish market.”