Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

In the following sentence, what does 'social and material resources'
mean? Does it mean 'social resource and material resource', or
'resources which are both social and material'?

These cruks are so stewped they cannot even bither to poof-read. I got
this in my e-mail.
"PayPal Fraud Departament
Dear PayPal customer, DATA: Octomber 29-2006 We recently reviewed your

I'm not sure, when I must be use "the", because
I don't know when "the" belong to some sentence?
Any examples, please?

"John operates the store in his own venture".
In this sentence, does "in one's own venture" mean "at one's own risk,
ready to accept any losses" or does it imply that a firm (joint
venture) is incorporated to run the store?

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[Billy talks about the henchmen/bodyguards serving the Chairman,
Mr. Hines, a New York politician]
I recognized them as of the same ilk I had been living among for some

On the news, a story about a fire, and a victim that was in "full
cardiac arrest".
"Paramedics were able to restore a pulse, but the man remains in
life-threatening condition."

In certain languages, "concrete" is used only as an adjective,
antonymous with "abstract". English seems to be an exception with the
prevalence of the noun usage ("the building material").
Therefore, how natural does such a sentence sound like in formal

I can only assume that the Material
I posted in another ng contained many english
and grammarical errors, because, the messages were
removed.

Someone wrote in Finnish:
Jos jatkat ryhmässä "finet.ryhmat" edes yhden viestin
verran tuolla uudelleen aloittamallasi haistattelulinjalla
niin sovellan äärimmäisen ovelaa menetelmääni jatkossa

Below is the sample email contents. If there is any fault or mistakes,
please let me know.
Thank you in advance.
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What are the differences betweens between "work at" and "work on"?

For the following sentence, is "by saying things like" necessary? Besides
using abbreviations like "don't and had I studied...", is there any possible
way to make the sentence concise?
If you do not want to blame yourself by saying things like, ¡°If I had

It may be a moot point, but 've been trying to decide whether "as" is
necessary or optional in the following sentence:
"Once its paper was analyzed, the document revealed itself [as] a
forgery "

in my article, I like to introduce the term "capability" with the
acronym C. That is, I would like to write something like:
"..., called Capability (C) of a team."
How should I use the plural of this acronym? Initially I thought this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English
Inquiring minds need to know.