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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2007The industry
With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never successful in the industry after the war. Two questions to the sentence above: 1. Do I need a comma between "with the help of the Jews" and "Oscar Schindler"? 2. Do I need the "the" before "industry"? Thanks! > With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement > factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thanks! Yes. Depends on whether you mean he was never again successful in cement production (the industry) or never successful in any industrial venture (industry). > > With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement > > factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > production (the industry) or never successful in any industrial > venture (industry). Hardly have you answered my first question on the article, when I have to raise a second one: Regensburg had the monopoly for (the) salt trade in upper Bavaria in the Middle Ages. Do I need a "the" before "salt trade"? Thanks! > > > With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement > > > factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Yes. I would also suggest a small rewrite, "Regensburg monopolised the salt trade ...." >> > > With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement >> > > factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > Yes. I would also suggest a small rewrite, "Regensburg monopolised the > salt trade ...." Did they monopolise it or were they given the monopoly? Different things, I suspect.  SignatureRay UK > >> > > With the help of the Jews Oscar Schindler later established a cement > >> > > factory in Frankfurt. But it soon went bankrupt. He was never [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > -- > Ray Not really. Monopolise means 'to have or exploit a monopoly position', not 'to create a monopoly'. It's the exact equivalent of what the OP originally wrote. How the monopoly position came about is irrelevant. If it was important to the discussion it would need to be added ... As a result of shady practice Regensburg monopolised ... Thanks to the generous withdrawal of other towns Regensburg monopolised ... By sheer chance Regensburg monopolised ... [...] >>>> [samaple sentence] Regensburg had the monopoly for (the) salt trade in >>>> upper Bavaria [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > monopolised ... > By sheer chance Regensburg monopolised ... I assumed it meant that Regensburg had been granted the salt monopoly. If that's so, "held" might be clearer than "had". (Someone may know whether a salt monopoly was in fact in the gift of the then ruler of Bavaria. As a parallel, there was a monopoly in Elizabethan England on printed music, granted by the Sovereign to Thomas Tallis and his pupil Wiliam Byrd.) Alan Jones > [...] > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Alan Jones As far as I am able to establish Regensburg's 'monopoly' was the result of its position on the trade routes from Salzburg (literally 'salt-town') where an actual monopoly on the trade sat, first in the hands of the Church and then the Hapsburg Emperors. Regensburg was therefore in a monopoly position as the supplier of salt to its area by happenstance rather than deliberate effort and was never granted any official status as such. |
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