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Business C1 · Unit 7 · Innovation, R&D & disruption

7B. Any given quarter

C1 · Advanced Business English · advanced quantifiers & determiners

Unit 7 · Epigraph
"A portfolio in which every bet is on track is a portfolio no experienced director has ever seen."
— after Rita McGrath
Objectives

What you'll be able to do

4 min
  • Write a portfolio-review paragraph in which quantifiers, not adjectives, carry the honesty.
  • Deploy small-number quantifiers (a handful of / only / not every) and negative quantifiers (none / not one / few if any) where universal quantifiers would have been easier.
  • Diagnose a universal-quantifier paragraph and rewrite it into a shape-of-distribution paragraph.
  • Read a rival's portfolio disclosure and price the quantifiers before the numbers.
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