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#2 (permalink) Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:36 am Running account vs current account |
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As far as I know, a running account is an arrangement you make with a firm, store or business so that you can buy goods as and when and then you agree settlement dates but the current account is with a bank into which are paid salary, wages, pensions or whatever on a regular basis and which entitles the holder to have a cheque book and card. _________________ English as a Second Language You can read my ESL story The Name of the Game |
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Alan Co-founder

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#3 (permalink) Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:49 am Running account vs current account |
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many thanks, Alan _________________ the more we learn
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Pupil I'm here quite often ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:53 am Running account vs current account |
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Hi, Professors! I am studying about some English articles, but i don't understand some titles of articles! Such as : "Pledge by pledge" and "Australia hit hard by mining slump" . Can you explain them for me? Thank you very much! |
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Meocon New Member

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#5 (permalink) Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:10 am Running account vs current account |
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| Meocon wrote: | Hi, Professors! I am studying about some English articles, but i don't understand some titles of articles! Such as : "Pledge by pledge" and "Australia hit hard by mining slump" . Can you explain them for me? Thank you very much! |
I don't understand the first one; looks like wordplay that is impossible to understand without reading the article. Perhaps a variation on "step by step".
In the second title, "is" is to be be supplied: "is hit hard". Being "hit hard" is a common metaphor from battle or something like it: when you are hit hard, you are experiencing something bad. Mining is the process in which minerals and such are found in mines, holes in the ground or in mountains. A slump is a fall or collapse, here used as a common metaphor: a bad situation in (part of) the economy, when profit and turnover in a a certain sector are declining sharply. A mining slump is a decrease in economic activity in the mining sector. The title means that the mining sector in Australia is in a bad state economically: demand for raw materials has probably dropped. |
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Cerberus™ I'm here quite often ;-)

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#6 (permalink) Wed Oct 14, 2009 15:36 pm Running account vs current account |
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| Thank a lot, Cerberus! |
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Meocon New Member

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#7 (permalink) Wed Oct 14, 2009 15:51 pm Running account vs current account |
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| By the way, i have one more question. I know some antonyms such as: happy- sad, open- close. what about some others such as : come- go, back-forward ?Are they also antonyms? why? |
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Meocon New Member

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| Englishclub: "Why do some nouns have no plural?" | By Monday morning. vs On Monday morning. |