Help with English

Saint said:
I have skill/skills to do this job better than others.

skill or skills?
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Either, depending if you think the job requires one or more skill.
We might also use the definite article, so it becomes "I have the skill/skills to do this job better than others." It's not wrong to omit the definite article, but if you've identified the specific skills you're referring to then you'd probably use the "the".
 
Write4U said:
Should that not read "the job requires one or more skills"?.............:)
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Yes, I think so. Was typing too quick on a phone and didn't check the autocorrect. That said, I think it can actually be either, although plural seems to be preferable.
 
Saint said:
Why equipment no plural?
How to indicate you got "many" equipment?
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Equipment is the set of tools you have for a task. There may be many items in the set but only one set, linguistically speaking.
You'd say "I've got lots of equipment".
 
1) Dividend is subject to financial status of the company.
2) Dividend is subject to the financial status of company.
3) Dividend is subject to the financial status of the company.

Which is more correct?
 
3 is the best of the three options, but still not good. For a start, the sentence should say what it is talking about. Does it mean that dividends are only paid if the company has a good financial status? If so, then why not say that?
 
Why Equipment can not be written as equipments?
If you got many pieces of equipment, how do you say?
 
Saint said:
Why Equipment can not be written as equipments?
If you got many pieces of equipment, how do you say?
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many pieces of people to make a big ball of peoples together in a bundle
a small collection of black and white people in a group
they are both sorts of colours black AND white
 
Saint said:
Why Equipment can not be written as equipments?
If you got many pieces of equipment, how do you say?
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Equipment is already plural. When you have only one piece of equipment you call it "a piece of equipment" not "an equipment".

English is fussy about double negatives and double plurals - no geeses or mices either.
 
Saint said:
maximize and optimize can mean the same thing?
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Not really. "Maximize" aims for more or most while "optimize" aims for better or best. The maximum expenditure doesn't necessarily produce the optimum result.

The maximum speed that your car will go is not necessarily the optimum speed for road and traffic conditions.
 
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