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Re: Please help me to check my grammer and sentence structure of my report

AlpheccaStars — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:02:00 GMT

One paragraph at a time - this editor is very tedious and difficult to use.

Unemployment and inflation are two well-known topics that are often discussed. However, many people do not know that unemployment and inflation have a strong influence on each other. Unemployment basically means that number of people who have no job or are seeking employment. Conversely, an ~~constant~~ increase (inflation is not constant!) in the overall ~~over all~~ "price level" is called inflation (Colander, 157). Unemployment and inflation are both examples of macroeconomic instability. This report will discuss the relationship between unemployment and inflation relationship, their effects, and their results (impact?) on our economic system, our society, and on the population. This report is based on on the basis of the chapter six "Unemployment and Inflation" from the Real World Macro by Dollar and Sense Collective.

Please help me to check my grammer and sentence structure of my report

RA19 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:57:06 GMT

I know this is big, but please try as much as you can help me. Thanks.

Unemployment and inflation are two well-known topics that are often discussed. However, many people do not know that unemployment and inflation have strong influence on each other. Unemployment basically means that number of people who have no job or seeking employment. Conversely, a constant increase in over all âprice levelâ is called inflation (Colander, 157). Unemployment and inflation are both examples of macroeconomic instability. This report will discuss unemployment and inflationâs relationship, affects, and their results on our economic system, our society, and on the population on the basis of the chapter six âUnemployment and Inflationâ from the Real World Macro by Dollar and Sense Collective.

According to the article âThe Natural Rate of Unemploymentâ, Pollin discussed the idea of the natural rate of unemployment, which is also called NAIRU âNon-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment.âÂ¹ Many orthodox economics think that if the unemployment rate decreases from the natural rate of unemployment, which according to economists is a little below than 6%, can cause inflation.Â¹ In 1968, Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize winning economist, invented the theory of âNatural Rate of Unemploymentâ and later the theory was adjusted by mainstream economists and named the âNon-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemploymentâ or NAIRU.Â¹ That is an achievable rate or target that does not cause to increase inflation.Â¹ Friedman also said that NAIRU changes over time, it contingent upon workers, unions and capitalists.Â¹

When unemployment rate goes down, it increases workers demand of increasing wages. Â¹ As compared to the theories of Robert Gordon, Karl Marx, and Michael Kalecki, all were agree that although NAIRU changes over time, but capitalists purposely avoid full employment because it prevent workers to demand more than they deserve and from Friedman view mass unemployment results when workersâ demand increase from their productivity. Â¹ After understanding the class conflict, some important issues can be seen clearly. For instance, workersâ demands of increasing wages do not cause inflation directly because power is in the hands of the âcapitalistsâ not the workers. Â¹ In contrast, Inflation occur when capitalists fulfill their workersâ demand of higher wages by increasing the prices on the goods and services.Â¹

From the 1990âs workers could not increase in their wages, therefore, Pollin said workerâs well-being can not be determined by the full employment, and the United States need a well-developed policy to maintain full employment at living wage while controlling the inflation.Â¹

According to the article âWhen Wage Hikes Donât Mean Price Hikesâ, written by Arthur Macewan, there are certain circumstances where employers donât pass âwage hikesâ to their customers.Â² For instance, according to the âLaw of Demandâ the quantity of demand decreases when the prices of goods increase (Colander, 91). For this reason, employers have more chances of decreasing their sales and revenue, thus they donât pass income increase to their consumers.Â² When workersâ incomes increase, it causes most of the goods and servicesâ demand increase.Â² However, on the other hand, firms and employers are also consumers, when companies increase their employeeâs wages, it affect companies âpurchasing powerâ.Â² As a result, prices do not increase. In addition, there are some factors that can cause employers to increase their prices to maintain the profits are âgovernment monetary authorities, minimum wage policies, and strength of labor unions.âÂ²

Bryan Synderâs article âWhat are the real cost of inflation and to whomâ, states that the inflation is a risk to the interest of large investments of the financiers, and this is a view of the financiers.Â³ However, their view will not be true if there is an average rate of inflation.Â³ For instance, during the 1953 to 1973, the inflation was very high, but the rate of the growth was also remained high in the Japan, Korea, Israel, and also in some other countries.Â³ Its mean that inflation and growth could be parallel, and average inflation doesnât hurt long term growth.Â³

According to the Thomas Michl of Colgate University, the real cost of inflation is a decrease in the real income, but it can be corrected.Â³ For instance, the rate of inflation fluctuate by the time, therefore, government established COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment).Â³ Which is an adjustment made to the social security structure to adjust the benefits, so the peopleâs âfixed Social Security benefitâ could not be spoil by the inflation.Â³ Additionally, increase in the wages mean workersâ have to pay more income tax, thus to adjust the wages in order to balance with the inflation, the government has build âTax Reform Actâ to solve this problem.Â³ High inflation devastates the valid worth of workersâ income and investorsâ deposit.Â³ Consequently, average inflation does not affect to the business and individualsâ investment and slows down economics growthÂ³.

The article âIs The âNew Economyâ More Productive?â by Phineas Baxandall is âsorting fact from fictionâ of the old and new economy. The information technology played a great role into the new economy, particularly, in the gain of productivity.ï Productivity âmeasure the output per workerâ (Colander, 190). And the productivity measured up by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)ï Gross Domestic Product is âthe market value of final goods and services produced in an economy, stated in the prices of a given yearâ (Colander, 141). In recent decades, information technology development has helped to enhance the productivity and so economy.ï On the other hand, in the 1980âs average growth of the GDP was 2.9%, and in the 1990âs it was 3.1%, if we compared 1980âs with 1990âs average growth of the GDP, there was not so much difference.ï And also, from the 1990âs, average workers only gain minimum of 0.5% increased in their wages each year.ï However, the technology has increased the workersâ expenses because in order to be more productive, their need to have new technology has become essential for them. In relation to the new economy, the productivity will continue to increase as the information technology continues to grow.ï Therefore, this will be necessary to pay attention to the education and industry of the information technology.ï

Arthur Macewan explained in his article âProductivity, Bargaining Power, And Wagesâ that productivity is the amount of output over per unit of input, and the workers or unionsâ power of arguing for their demands called bargaining power.ï The bargaining strength of workers in last ten years has weakened due to the government policies.ï Workers at the lowest level are affecting most from this. ï Moreover, outsourcing the jobs is also declining the workerâs bargaining power and particularly workers who are already getting less are facing the competition with workers who are even being paid lesser than them. ï For example, in East Asia and Mexico the workerâs income is much lower than the U.S. ï The technology change is also an issue toward workers who are missing skills that are essential for their jobs. ï According to the past evidences, productivity increase is greater than the wages increase, so âIt would be hard to explain the rise and fall of wagesâby the changes in productivity.âï

Two important things, I did not know before reading the chapter âUnemployment and Inflationâ was how unemployment and inflation affect each other and the second thing what is NAIRU (Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment). I learned that there is a tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, therefore, low unemployment and low inflation is really hard to happen at the same time. As I mentioned before, when unemployment falls, workers demand for higher wages. Therefore, the companies or firms raise their prices to cover up their profits; as a result, the acceleration of inflation occurs. I never thought about this point of view, so it really amazed me. There is a theory called NAIRU âNon-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemploymentâ, which is to stabilize the unemployment and inflation rate at the positive level. This theory was also new for me. Under this theory, when employment goes below the ânatural rateâ, which is also adjustable over the time, inflation begins to rise. Its means unemployment at some point is favorable to the society. I realized that it is not just the problem of the government polices, but it is also a problem of individualâs aggregate demand. We as individuals always demand what is good for us without thinking about what is good for the whole society, and that creates instability to our society.

All the authors almost discussed about the same period of 1990âs to 2000âs in the chapter of âUnemployment and Inflationâ of the Real World Macro. In this period U.S. economy was apparently on the right track. The U.S. economic growth was increasing progressively. The technological development higher the productivity and also enhanced the globalization. The U.S. stock market was booming and investors were willing to invest in this significant growth. In this period inflation was pretty stable, and even in the 1997, according to the Robert Pollinâs Article âThe âNatural Rateâ Of Unemploymentâ, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was dropped to 4.9% after longs decades, but the inflation was stable and controllable. However, I would like to change the two things in our system. Firstly the class conflict and secondly the fair wage system, which is obviously related to the class conflict. According to this chapter, one thing was pretty clear that class conflict exits and dominates the poor member of the society. Capitalist do not let this happened because the full employment increases workers demands of higher wages. If the productivity is growing, then workers should have fair demands of increasing their wages, and capitalist should not evade workers from getting what their worth is.

There is a need to stabilize full employment with low inflation and fair wages. In the last decades, productivity was higher, but workers could not gain in their wages as they should be. There is definitely a policy change needed because there is instability between the productivity gain and distributing of fair income. The government should impose a policy where full employment, productivity gain and distribution of income remain stable. I would suggest that government should control the class conflict because this is the main reason of instability. If government tries to agree those capitalist, who increase their profits by lowering the cost of workers income or who has a fear that low unemployment will increase workers demand of rising wage, by making a deal or policy of a stable increase that can solve this problem for both the employers and employees. In the chapter âUnemployment and Inflationâ all the writers have same explicit suggestion on about developing a policy that helps to maintain the productivity growth with fair distribution of income. For instance, the writer, Robert Pollin, clearly suggest that in the United States well developed policy is required, where full employment can be control and stable with fair income, and also where healthy union can be build to protect the right of the workers such as, living wages, reasonable job securities, and a healthy work environment.Â¹

Re: Article - where do they go?

Clive — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:07:21 GMT

Hi,

Please look at this and tell me if the indefinite article 'a' goes with the third and fourth underlined parts. Is there possible confusion? If yes, how would you resolve it in term of grammar and the sentence structure? Would you say ther article 'a' does not go with any other words except the number one word?

Everything that goes into making a programme, lighting, staff and rent is now being reviewed.

The last three words appear to be used in a non-countable sense, so I would take the 'a' to relate only to 'programme'.

In addition, the verb 'make' does not seem to me to be a good choice for use with the other three nouns. We don't usually say, for example, that we 'make staff'.
I'd prefer to add other verbs, to clarify whatever is the intended meaning. eg

Everything that goes into making a programme, creating lighting, recruiting staff and paying for rent is now being reviewed.

Best wishes, Clive

Article - where do they go?

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:26:46 GMT

Re: Is the sentence structure right?

Goodman — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:18:28 GMT

Liat,

^{I donât think the correct answer should be dependent on the number of student based on the original question which was}

^{only 5% of the students are placed after completion of their training. Clearly, the subject is the percentage which is â5%â, not the student; if my understanding is true.}

^{My question was, should âisâ be used instead of âareâ? And I think it should.}

^{If this statement is transformed into a question, it would be âwhat is the percentage of}

^{Job placement after the students completed their training? Not how many students are placed.}

^{For the same reason:}

^{A set of tires for my new car costs me $500, not âcostâ.}

^{A group of students was found lost in the forest.}

^{Common belief is plural verb should be used in this kind of sentence construction.}

^{We need the gurus to clear up this oneâ¦.}

Re: Is the sentence structure right?

Jackson6612 — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:35:10 GMT

Cool Breeze
In informal style grammatical considerations are often cast aside in all languages, and using because without a main clause is very common:
"Why didn't you call him?"
"Because I didn't know his number."
Since and as would be just as "grammatical" as because in the above sentence but they just aren't used.

Sorry for asking you this.

What did you mean by the underlined sentence? Did you mean:
1: Since and as... in the above sentence but they cannot be used in the above sentence?
Or
2: Since and as... in the above sentence but I just didn't use them?

Re: Is the sentence structure right?

Cool Breeze — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:02:25 GMT

Anonymous
How about:

"The other 95% are placed before completion of the training."

Fine, because you now have a main clause. There is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with because, since or as as long as you have a main clause as well. Otherwise, strictly speaking, you don't have a sentence since because, since and as are subordinate conjunctions, beginning subordinate clauses. A subordinate clause cannot constitute a sentence.

An example of a sentence beginning with these conjuntions:

Because/since/as I didn't know his number, I couldn't call him. = I couldn't call him because/since/as I didn't know his number.

In informal style grammatical considerations are often cast aside in all languages, and using because without a main clause is very common:

"Why didn't you call him?"

"Because I didn't know his number."

Since and as would be just as "grammatical" as because in the above sentence but they just aren't used.

Re: URGENT ATTENTION BOSS: WOULD YOU PLS COMMENT ON 'MY MOTIVATION LETTER'

Mister Micawber — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:09:39 GMT

I have struck out unnecessary or inappropriate verbiage, made some corrections (in bold). You may also have to fix the sentence structure to correct for my deletions.

February 2, 2008

Director of the Program
Department of ABC
University of ABC

Dear Dr Smith:

I am writing to apply for the Masterâs Programme in ***.

I am confident that the programme corresponds well with my plans of becoming a specialist in marketing field. It is my dream and desire to be admitted in *** and pursue my *** studies in the field of Marketing.

My educational background is in the principles and practices of ~~the~~ marketing ~~field~~. I ~~have successfully~~ completed a three-year BBA (Hons)-IT program in 2004. My studies have guided me through systematic researching, analytical thinking, management of resources and information evaluation. I continued my studies and completed an MBA with specialization in marketing ~~field~~ in December 2005. Marketing Management, Advertising, Sales Management, Services Marketing, Business Strategy and Leadership were among my favourite subjects of the MBA program.

I love to play computer strategic games, Chess game I mostly play with my compute which I never won, Graphics, Animations, Web Designing, Reading something interesting online, cooking, outing, meeting just everyone in a group and selecting good people as my close friends are my hobbies. I feel no shame in meeting new people, talking them, and playing jokes.

After my studies, I plan to start my career at an international level, In June 2006, I was employed as an Operations Supervisor for a large retailing firm in Saudi Arabia. This was a valuable experience in supermarket management, with thousands of products and stiff competition ~~among different brands and huge variety of products~~. ~~Such an experience I was unable to get in my country.~~

During this contract, I have been analysing the top five brands of various product categories. For example, in the 'fresh milk & juices' category in Saudi Arabia, the key brands are Almarai, Nadec, Nada, and Safi. I have compiled weekly/monthly sales figures and attempted to determine why Almarai is the top seller. It appears that Alamarai management focuses on high quality product, packaging design, promotion (renting 60% of the category shelf space), advertising, efficient daily delivery, and a huge network of branches throughout Saudi Arabia.

My two-year contract ~~of two years is going to~~ will soon expire and I have now ~~already~~ been offered a Store Manager position ~~for next contract~~, but I have a strong ambition ~~in myself to further study~~ to become a marketing specialist, and I cannot become a specialist without having a full understanding of a specific marketing field ~~in Marketing~~.

Education from *** is affordable for me as compared to other *** countries. *** is a good safer place for other nations. *** is in between the best universities in *** and secondly ***University has a course offer (***) which relates to my goals. Thatâs why it is number one in my selection criteria.

Obtaining a one-year master's degree from *** means becoming a specialist (or a step towards it). ~~I can put a high price for my services. I will achieve my first objective of âFinancial Growthâ I will be differentiated from my competitors by having Masters from *** University.~~ I have already met people from many nations in Saudi Arabia, and I will further learn from others while living in a new culture. I will make new friends from Europe, will learn their life style, achieving my ~~second~~ objective of personal growth, and when I ~~will~~ complete my master's degree I will ~~already~~ achieve my ~~third~~ objective of professional growth. The programme will equip me with the necessary skills to continue to acquire new knowledge and understanding throughout my entire working life.

I hope that the combination of my past experiences and academic education will qualify me as a University of *** master's programme candidate.

Re: direct object indirect object object of a preposition help me! plz

ClarkePeters — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:12:39 GMT

This post is a little dated but since I've been working with my students on this very topic I thought I'd post.

First, you can't understand what the "object of the preposition" is if you don't first know how to identify prepositions. So you need to find a list (google "list prepositions English" or "frequency list prepositions English") and you should get plenty of lists. Depending on which list you go by, there are from 80 to 130 or so prepositions. Most are not used too often, so I'd get a frequency list and try to learn the first 50 or so.   That may sound like a lot of words, but compared to the number of words in Webster's 500,000 word dictionary, that's really very few words--and they are SO IMPORTANT to understanding sentence structure. If you don't want to memorize, no problem, just keep a list with you at all times.

When you come across a word from the list, check to see if it has an object by asking "what" after the preposition.
              John called about the party.
              about what? the party,
              so "party" or "the party" if you include the article, is the object of the preposition.

Be careful, prepositions sometimes act as adverbs.
John got up and went to the kitchen.
up what? ---ummmm, no answer, there is NO object, so "up" is an adverb to "got"

as for DO, ask "what" after the verb.

John made a cake.
John made what? a cake
DO is cake

as for IO, ask "to whom/what?" or "for whom/what?" after the DO
John made Mary a cake.
John made what? a cake
DO is cake
a cake for whom? for Mary
IO is Mary.

The following sentences are exactly the same in meaning! (except maybe in emphasis)

John made Mary a cake.         common usage
John made for Mary a cake.   NOT common usage, but technically
                                                  correct, sometimes used for emphasis
John made a cake for Mary.    common usage

same with "to"
John gave Mary a cake.
John gave to Mary a cake.   NOT common usage
John gave a cake to Mary.

some grammarians will say that an IO can ONLY be between the verb and DO.
Other linguists say functionally there is no difference, so it is OK to say that "to Mary" or "for Mary" is the IO. However, others will argue that they are adverbials answering the question where (to) or why (for) about the verb (made why? for Mary    gave where? to Mary).
How one describes it is not important, as they all function the same.

Re: sentence structure - has

Yoong Liat — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:31:09 GMT

Hoa Thai wrote:
Vincent Teo wrote:

Can I write the sentence with the correct position of "has"? You certainly can!

(a) Ali is very boastful and has a few friends. Okay. BTW, do you mean 'a few' or 'few'? 'a few' means 'a small number of friends'; 'few' w/o 'a' means 'not mnay' or even 'none'.

I'd write "Being very boastful, Ali has few friends.