- Communicative Objective: Develop the ability to negotiate sophisticated agreements, establish conditions, make concessions, clarify priorities, and propose mutually acceptable compromises.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- We would be prepared to accept the revised timeline provided that the additional costs were shared proportionately.
- Much as we appreciate your concerns, extending the deadline indefinitely would create difficulties on our side.
- What we are proposing is a compromise whereby both parties retain sufficient flexibility.
- Should circumstances change significantly, the terms could be reviewed by mutual agreement.
- Provided that we can resolve the remaining contractual issues, I see no reason why an agreement should not be finalized this week.
- Grammar Focus: Conditional inversion with should, formal conditionals with provided that and whereby, concessive clauses, complex passive structures, and cleft constructions.
- Vocabulary Focus: proportionately, compromise, contractual, flexibility, finalize
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