Cause & Effect Language — Europcar: Fleet, Yield, and the Road Ahead
Grammar: Language of cause and effect
Free ESL grammar exercise on cause & effect language themed around europcar: fleet, yield, and the road ahead. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising language of cause and effect. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Because a car sitting unsold overnight generates zero revenue yet still incurs depreciation, insurance, and cleaning costs, operators like Europcar adjust rates in real time.
Grammar: Cause and Effect Language
- Cause: lead to /
- Use lead to or result in before a noun phrase to show that one thing produces another. Poor fleet planning led to idle vehicles.
- Effect: as a result /
- Place as a result or therefore at the start of the consequence clause, after a semicolon or full stop. Demand fell; therefore, rates dropped.
Sample items
- The sharp fall in used-car prices ______ a direct hit to Europcar's balance sheet.
- Yield management allows companies to adjust rates; ______, idle vehicles are minimised.
- ______ the high volume of passengers at Dublin Airport, Europcar operates one of its busiest hubs there.
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