Grammar Exercises

35. Microsoft faces two major threats: piracy and patentlawsuits.

36. Bill Gates focuses on product development andstrategy; Satya Nadella focuses on operations.

37. Bill Gates focuses on product development andstrategy; on the other hand, Satya Nadella focuses onoperations.

38. Microsoft’s American offices are in RedmondWashington, New York City, San Francisco , Birmingham Alabama, andPhoenix Arizona.

39. Cloud computing involves three possible platforms:software as-a-service (SaaS) platform-as-a-service (PaaS) andinfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).

48. The recent story about Microsoft in The Wall StreetJournal/“The Wall Street Journal” was called Microsoft’s Gamble onCloud Computing/“Microsoft’s Gamble on Cloud

Computing.”

49. Bill Gates said that he’d like to see the phrase gobing it/“go bing it” replace the phrase go google it/“go googleit.”

50. At the luncheon, his speech, titled The Road to theFuture/“The Road to the Future,” laid out his vision for cloudcomputing over the next decade.

51. In 2013, 3/three Microsoft business divisions werecombined.

52. Revenues for the last fiscal year were $62,484million/$62,484,000,000.

53. Revenues rose 28 percent/28% over the pastyear.

54. Microsoft employs over 89 thousand/89,000employees.

55. Microsoft has five/5 businessdivisions.

56. 5/Five Microsoft divisions make up the Microsoftcorporation.

57. Microsoft lost money in 3/three of the 17/seventeenproduct groups.

62. Microsoft joined with Accenture to create Avanade,an IT consultancy. They/It specialize/s in connecting to consumersthrough online platforms such as social networks.

63. Neither Yahoo! nor Microsoft has/have increasedits/their market share in the search engine market for the pastfive years.

64. Microsoft hold/s its/their annual shareholdersmeeting at the corporate headquarters.

65. Every new Microsoft employee should provide copiesof his/her/their Social Security card/s at theorientation.

66. The manual about computer programming tips are/is onreserve at the corporate reading room.

67. Microsoft and its competitors in the technologyindustry is/are constantly changing.

68. Many of Google’s HR policies are aimed ateliciting/illiciting honest feedback.

69. The advice/advise on Microsoft’s Help menu is nothelpful.

70. All employees should ensure/insure that theirLinkedIn pages do not contain any content contrary to the Code ofConduct.

71. This decision affects/effects every aspect of ourmarketing strategy.

72. Their next step is to identify how to raise enoughcapital/capitol for the venture.

73. She told me that the two products containcomplementary/complimentary features.

74. This search engine is much more reliable than/thenGoogle’s.

75. Sundar Pichai, CEO/ceo of Google, says that Googleis ahead of its competitors in the race to develop artificialintelligence capabilities."

76. We just hired her for a Senior Developer/seniordeveloper position.

77. Google’s headquarters are located in SiliconValley/silicon valley.

78. The headquarters are located just West/west ofSunnyvale.

79. Please contact Eileen Chao, CommunicationsLead/communications lead, for additional pressinquires.

80. Ms. Chao explained, “We/we will invest more than $50million this year to research and develop artificialintelligence.”