ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: which one is correct??

Clive — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:42:22 GMT

Hi,

I don't understand your last post, so I'll just comment on your first post.

which one is correct??could u give me the reasons??thx

A1.Does Business Intelligence Have Benefits for Company Decision Making?

A2.Does Business Intelligence Provide Benefits for Company Decision Making?

A3.Does Business Intelligence ~~Has~~ Have Benefits for Company Decision Making?

The capital letters make all the above seem like titles, eg for an article or a presentation.

A1 and A2 are fine. In A3, you need the bare, uninflected infinitive. The inflection is in the word 'does'.

B1.offers a solution to maintain the data regularly in order to improve the quality of data in the systems.

B2.offers a solution to regular data maintenance by sysadmin in order to improve the quality of data in the systems.

B3.offers a solution to regularly maintain the data in order to improve the quality of data in the systems.

All of these B versions are incomplete sentences, because they have no subject.

'. . . a solution to maintain . . . ' is awkward and unclear. I'd say ' . . . a solution that maintains . . . '

Best wishes, Clive

poci_wasiats — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:45:15 GMT

A) i want to judge BI is required by a company or not??

B)i want to tell to get clean data, ive to maintain the data regularly..

thx...

Clive — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:41:14 GMT

Hi,

First, try to tell us what you think, and your reason.