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tcom
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 Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: a question of sentence |
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Hello teachers,
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| The record industry has also engaged in less conventional ways of harassing people who use P2P networks, including posting music files that are corrupt or empty, and has explored the legality of using software that temporarily "locks up" any computer that downloads it. Orrin Hatch, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, when asked a couple of weeks ago whether he favored passing legislation that would override federal anti-hacking laws, said that if other means of stopping illegal downloaders failed, "I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize the seriousness of their actions." |
1. Who does the word "you" refer to?
2. What is the meaning of the word "have" in this sentence?
3. Does the word "those" refer to "their machines"?
4. Could you tell me the meaning of the sentence "If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize the seriousness of their actions." in more detail?
Thanks in advance. |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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Location: So. Cal
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: a question of sentence |
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| tcom wrote: |
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| ...Orrin Hatch, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, when asked a couple of weeks ago whether he favored passing legislation that would override federal anti-hacking laws, said that if other means of stopping illegal downloaders failed, "I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize the seriousness of their actions." |
1. Who does the word "you" refer to? |
It's a generic somebody commonly used in hypothetical examples.
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| 2. What is the meaning of the word "have" in this sentence? |
experience
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| 3. Does the word "those" refer to "their machines"? |
Computers that have illegally downloaded/copied music files.
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| 4. Could you tell me the meaning of the sentence "If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize the seriousness of their actions." in more detail? |
If there are a few hundred thousand personal computers containing illegally copied music files that lock up and crash, people would realize the seriousness of their illegal actions of downloading illegal copies.
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