The biggest problem here is "once you have decides". It should be "once you have decided".

What do you understand the word "dominate" to mean? Do you mean "control"? With regard to not using numbers you could say: "slightly over half".

X's father is a shopkeper, but he ekes out a living by ferrying passengers on his motorbike. While I agree that "to ferry" is usually associted with water it does not have to be. See: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ferry Where they

No, "Dear sir" ends with "Yours faithfully" and "Dear Mr Smith" ends with "Yours sincerely". Both are for formal business letters. (A good trick to remember them is that the two S's - "sir"

It sounds a little bit odd, but I wouldn't say it's "wrong". It sounds odd because "while" (which here seems to mean "at the same time" or perhaps "although") doesn't seem to be quite the

If a company (or anything) serves as a "front" then it serves to present a legal face which hides some illegal activity.

The first thing to remember is that songs do not necessarily follow all the rules of grammar or use standard vocabulary, so you need to be careful about using them as examples. Additionally it's also sometimes difficult to interpret a single

I would understand that to be a fracture of multiple ribs.

I need to know if these words are cognates or false cognates: I don't understand. "Cognates or false cognates" of what? Of each other?

Wimp? Not exactly right though.