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Key Phrases for Making a Business Presentation

By Kenneth Beare, About.com

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Listing Options

Always provide examples of evidence to prove your point.

Listing Options

There are a number of alternatives in this case. We can ...
If we had ... , we would ...
Had we ... , we could have ... Do we need to X or Y?
I think we can clearly see that we can either ... or ...
We have been considering ...
What if we ...

Points to Remember

Use the second conditional form to consider present options and the third conditional for considering different outcomes based on past actions. Use hypothetical questions as a way of introducing considerations into the presentation.

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