Talaera Seven Verb Tenses for Business Emails
Talaera Seven Verb Tenses for Business Emails explains the tenses that appear most often in professional correspondence, from the present simple through the present perfect and the future simple to the imperative. Published by Talaera, a business English training company, the article pairs each tense with a short rule and a set of example sentences taken from real work email, then closes with two gap-fill activities and an answer key.
100% Free (unlimited): the whole article, the example sentences for every tense and the two practice activities are open to any reader, with no account and no payment. The answer key opens as a shared document, also at no cost, so a learner can check the gap-fill exercises straight away.
How It Helps Your Business English
Seven sections take one tense at a time, covering the present simple, the present continuous, the past simple, the past continuous, the present perfect, the future simple and the imperative, each with a short explanation of when it is used and a list of example sentences drawn from workplace email. A note under the past simple shows how that tense, along with would and could, softens a request. Two gap-fill activities follow, the first a complete email about an incorrect invoice and the second a set of single sentences, with a link to the answers.
You can go straight to the section for the tense you are unsure about and compare its rule with the example sentences, which are written as whole email lines you can adapt to your own messages. The politeness note under the past simple gives you wording for rescheduling a meeting or asking a colleague for something without sounding abrupt. Working through the two activities lets you test the choices you have just read about, and the answer key shows you where your instinct differed.
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