Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2007

Can you please confirm if my following sentence is correct?
"I graduated in September 1999. Since then until August 2004, I WAS
WORKING for SAMSUNG company".
I thought  using simple past tense is correct in this case because I

Voting Day today.
Having determined with only two phone calls to the Electoral Commission
what the difference is between "wheelchair accessible" and "fully
wheelchair accessible", I set off with my mother at 7:50 am. The ramp, I

I'm doing revision for my English exam by doing past papers. One
interesting question reads:
3. Form the opposite of each word below by adding the apporpriate
prefix or suffix.

Hi. I am a teacher of the English Language from Tbilisi, Georgia. I
have often heard my students say that they find it difficult to
distinguish words in songs performed by native English or American
singers. To be honest, the task is rather problematic to me too. I

مواطن اماراتي، محافظ على فروضه وصلواته، لا يشرب، ويفضل من لا يدخن،
يعمل، لا مانع ان كان متزوج بشرط ان تكون له القدرة على فتح بيت اخر
ماديا ومعنوياً .. والسموحه من الاخوان غير الاماراتين لان لن ارد على
رسائلهم (حلاة الثوب رقعته منه وفيه)

In looking up things English in Dutch for the padre I came across
'Engelse schroevendraaier' (lit. English screwdriver)
-> using a hammer to drive screws
Before looking it up I had know the this as a 'Yankee screwdriver'

I have a question for you guys, english majors out-there.
The HR department in our company provides us with weekly "Health Tips", some
being quite humorous.
Here is an extract of this week's article:

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Sexual Stamina?
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Why can't they speak English barely?
Does the above question make any sense to you? Is it grammatically
correct at all? Wouldn't you rather ask: why do they barely speak any
English?

When is it proper to capitalize the first letter in a quote? For instance,
Malcom says that "Nature is made up of many little animals." Is it correct
grammar to capitalize "nature" or should it not be capitalized? I do not
have knowledge of when the first letter of quotations ...

I was just wondering if in the following sentence whether "others THAT
have not yet been identified" should be  "others WHICH have not yet
been identified" paralleling the use of "which" in "some of which."
"Many wholistic healers have claimed that herbs can be used to treat a

Anyone else had this experience of picking up
a book where the smell of the chemicals used in
the printing was too strong.
I picked up a copy of My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir

<http://mreugenides.blogspot.com/2007/11/milking-free-publicity.html>
       The reasons why we don't drink rats' milk are almost too obvious
       to bother going into - and there's a sentence I never thought
       I'd type - but clearly the logistics of rearing, grazing and

I was not the only one to take note of Dee Mills of Surrey, United
Kingdom, and her "Letter to America".  In today's _Orlando Sentinel_
Mike Thomas takes off on her at
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-miket2407nov25,0,2595172.colu
mn?coll=orl-news-col

Hi AUE members,
This afternoon I was going through my grammar book* to see the
different usages of the modal verb 'should', and I came up on a
strange usage of 'should' I had never heard before.