Preserve the request, facts, condition and next action.
Review six workplace-message tasks involving file versions, dates, handovers, checked figures, uncertain status and conditional instructions.
Each of six items counts one matching answer. Your count describes these tasks under your practice conditions, not a CEFR level, percentile, school grade or job-readiness judgement. Every worked answer and this complete guide remain available at every count.
Meaning carried into a practical message
The tasks ask which English reply preserves specified information: a revised file and deadline, an unresolved date, a draft version and missing image, two checked numbers, an unconfirmed delivery and an approval condition. The options can be grammatically plausible while carrying different facts. The aim is matching the declared task, not assessing personality, obedience or a universal standard of politeness.
A courteous message can still change a fact
Imagine a request for the revised map of Hall C by Monday noon. A reply beginning Could you may sound courteous, yet asking for Hall D or for Wednesday changes the request. Compare the location, version and deadline separately before judging whether the message does the required job. The example concerns fictional supplied details, without prescribing a real organisation’s workflow.
Keep unknowns and alternatives explicit
An unconfirmed arrival date should not become a guaranteed date. A request to clarify next Friday should ask for the calendar date instead of guessing. A handover must preserve what is ready and what is still missing. In a conditional instruction, check what happens both when approval arrives in time and when it does not; a summary that drops either branch changes the task.
Use a compact message checklist
Write a new fictional brief with a recipient, exact file or object, deadline, known status and next action. Draft a short English response, then compare each field with the brief. Ask whether you added a promise, removed a condition or changed a number. Only after the meaning matches, consider whether the wording suits the audience. No real message needs to be sent for this practice.
Selection is narrower than communication at work
Choosing a reply does not demonstrate spontaneous email writing, live negotiation, listening, speaking or success in a particular workplace. The scenarios state their own fictional conditions and cannot establish a hiring cutoff. Both interfaces preserve the English messages. Correct counts help select a review topic; they do not measure all communicative ability or justify a CEFR or job-readiness judgement.