Level 6Businessgrammar

Rhetorical & C2 Structures — The Data Behind Every Loyal Customer

Grammar: Collocations and the language of data-driven business

Free ESL grammar exercise on rhetorical & c2 structures themed around the data behind every loyal customer. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on business, practising collocations and the language of data-driven business. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

Yet the most sophisticated CRM strategies share a counter-intuitive feature: they are calibrated as much around not contacting the customer as around contacting them. Over-communication erodes trust faster than silence does.

Grammar

Inversion — not only
Not only did Spotify track songs; it also tracked silences. — inverted auxiliary after negative opener
Participle clause
Serving 90 million users, Nubank reshaped credit scoring across a continent. — background information compressed into a fronted clause

Sample items

  1. Not only ______ Starbucks redesign its app, but it also retrained its entire data team.
  2. ______ over 90 million customers, Nubank became the largest digital bank in Latin America.
  3. The ______ of dormant accounts costs the company more than the cost of reactivating them.

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