“Our success was largely due to Adele's contributions.”

Your former employee is applying for a new job and has asked you to write a letter of recommendation. In your letter, you're describing a project that she was really helpful with. You have described how successful that project was, so now you write:

Our success was largely due to Adele's contributions.

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“Yeah, well they've certainly added a lot of staff recently.”

During your lunch break at work, you're chatting with a coworker about one of your company's competitors. Your coworker is worried about the competitor and mentions that they are getting bigger. You're not as worried about them, but you do agree that the competitor has added more staff. You say:

Yeah, well they've certainly added a lot of staff recently.

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“I'm sorry. I don't set the rules; I just enforce them.”

You work at a nightclub. The club has a strict dress code. A group of people wants to get in, but one of them is wearing shorts. You can't let them in because of the club's rules. One of the people in the group is asking you to make an exception, but you're not allowed to decide that. You say:

I'm sorry. I don't set the rules; I just enforce them.

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“Please join me in congratulating him on his new position.”

You have given one of your employees a promotion. You're writing an email to everyone in your division of the company to announce this and congratulate him. After describing his accomplishments and strengths, you finish your message with:

Please join me in congratulating him on his new position.

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“Attendance is required.”

You're the manager of a group at work, and you want to schedule a meeting. It's important that all of the members of your group come to this meeting. You write an email to the group members, and after describing the meeting you write:

Attendance is required.

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“We need someone with real hands-on experience.”

You need to hire a software programmer at your company. You don't want to hire a young programmer who's just out of school. You want to hire someone who's created similar software in the past. You're explaining what kind of employee you need:

We need someone with real hands-on experience.

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