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Business Predictions: C1 Forms

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

In 2024, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that generative AI could add up to $4.4 trillion annually. Were businesses to adopt AI at scale within the next decade, entire sectors would look fundamentally different.

Grammar Reference · Business Predictions: C1 Forms

Inverted conditional

Were this to materialise, the entire sector would change. — formal; replaces 'if this were to'

Impersonal passive

AI is predicted to add trillions annually. — distancing; attribute claim without naming a source

'Should' conditional

Should adoption accelerate, firms would need to restructure quickly. — formal alternative to 'if'

Common error

Were the estimate proves correct... ✗ → Were the estimate to prove correct... ✓ — always use to-infinitive after were

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Business Predictions: C1 Forms

1. companies to invest heavily now, labour costs would fall sharply within a decade.

2.AI is predicted add significant value to the logistics industry.

3. this estimate prove accurate, entire industries would need to restructure.

4.Legal services are thought transforming faster than any other sector.

5.The disruption well arrive before most companies are ready for it.

6.Were adoption happen overnight, regulators would struggle to keep pace.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.If AI disrupts the legal sector, firms will need to retrain their staff.

2.People believe that AI will change logistics completely.

3.If adoption accelerates quickly, governments will struggle to regulate it.

4.Experts report that companies are already making large bets on AI.

5.If the estimate proves correct, millions of jobs will change significantly.

6.It seems that AI will add enormous value to knowledge-based industries.

7.If businesses do not adapt now, they will fall behind their competitors.

8.People say that the disruption will happen more suddenly than expected.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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