Anonymous  +  290716 Wed, 08 Nov 06 03:08 PM   Hi!        Could you please, help me? I have some questions about the following:    1) What is the correct form :        Ex.:  The e-mail is: IBM@.com.br = The e-mail is IBM at (or the commercial at) period com period br (My question   here  is how to read it, for example, if I'm on the phone)    2) What is the company's name or what is the company name?   3) Which would be the subject/matter or What would be the subject/matter ? (and why?)   4) When  companies that owned to the government become private, the name given to this process is: Privatization?   5) And  how to say in English "Desestatização" : It is "desestatization"?  (I looked for it in lots of dictionaries, and even in some  free translators , but all was in vain...)       I would be so grateful if you could answer these doubts today because I need the answers for an exercise.                                                                                             Have a nice day ! Thanks in advance,                                                                                                                   Luiz                                            Anonymous

	Grammar Geek  +  290721 Wed, 08 Nov 06 03:30 PM 1) The e-mail is IBM at dot com dot B R (Although I've never seen one that has a dot before the first word after the @.) The e-mail address is moderator at this site dot com 2) Either one. 3) Either one - are you choosing from several options? Which. If you are asking from the start, What. Probably, you should use "what." 4) Exactly 5) Sorry, I don't speak the language of "desestatizacao" so I can't help you on that one. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Grammar Geek  +  290948 Thu, 09 Nov 06 04:50 AM Like I said, either one. I know that this particular question has since been posted on another thread. If you still have questions about it, that's now probably a better place to ask. Grammar Geek