Innovation with Free Data
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Read more and we can learn faster, write better and speak more intelligently! Through analyzing and digesting how people write in the English speaking world, we’ll see how grammar is actually being applied, right or wrong. Yes, we’ll learn new vocabularies in the meantime as well. Following is an article written by an American reporter published on Internet.
#1: Government-funded projects have yielded a wealth of information, but much of this data has historically remained locked up in difficult-to-use form. #2: To get this data to people who might start businesses with them, the Obama administration created the position of chief technology officer (CTO).
Sentence #1: present perfect tense to show what has been done.
Sentence #2: past tense; in this sentence, “in 2009” was omitted, since not important.
#3: Todd Park, the nation’s current CTO, has plenty of innovation experience. #4: In 1997, at the age of 24, he co-founded his first start-up, called Athenahealth, which provides online data management for physicians. #5: After momentarily retiring to focus on his family he set up two other start-ups before joining the White House team four years ago.
#3: present perfect tense.
#4: past tense, but since the company Athenahealth is still in operation, present tense is used in “which ….”
#5: past tense is used instead of past perfect, which is commonly done in English writing; though “had set up two other …” is formal.
#6: In the summer of 2009, I got an e-mail from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asking about my becoming its chief technology officer. #7: My first question was: Why are you talking to me? #8: Because I don’t know anything about government. #9: I didn’t serve at any level. #10: But they said, it’s actually your background as someone who’s not in government, who’s been a health-tech entrepreneur.
#11: It’s a position the president established for the first time in his first term in office. #12: I’m the second CTO, after Aneesh Chopra. #13: The gist of the job is that I run an incubator inside the government. #14: It’s not birthing companies; it’s birthing projects that all have the common denominator of unleashing the power of tech to advance the president’s programs, whether that’s job creation, economic growth, improved outcomes in health care, education, public safety or energy.
Your input?
Read more and we can learn faster, write better and speak more intelligently! Through analyzing and digesting how people write in the English speaking world, we’ll see how grammar is actually being applied, right or wrong. Yes, we’ll learn new vocabularies in the meantime as well. Following is an article written by an American reporter published on Internet.
#1: Government-funded projects have yielded a wealth of information, but much of this data has historically remained locked up in difficult-to-use form. #2: To get this data to people who might start businesses with them, the Obama administration created the position of chief technology officer (CTO).
Sentence #1: present perfect tense to show what has been done.
Sentence #2: past tense; in this sentence, “in 2009” was omitted, since not important.
#3: Todd Park, the nation’s current CTO, has plenty of innovation experience. #4: In 1997, at the age of 24, he co-founded his first start-up, called Athenahealth, which provides online data management for physicians. #5: After momentarily retiring to focus on his family he set up two other start-ups before joining the White House team four years ago.
#3: present perfect tense.
#4: past tense, but since the company Athenahealth is still in operation, present tense is used in “which ….”
#5: past tense is used instead of past perfect, which is commonly done in English writing; though “had set up two other …” is formal.
#6: In the summer of 2009, I got an e-mail from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asking about my becoming its chief technology officer. #7: My first question was: Why are you talking to me? #8: Because I don’t know anything about government. #9: I didn’t serve at any level. #10: But they said, it’s actually your background as someone who’s not in government, who’s been a health-tech entrepreneur.
#11: It’s a position the president established for the first time in his first term in office. #12: I’m the second CTO, after Aneesh Chopra. #13: The gist of the job is that I run an incubator inside the government. #14: It’s not birthing companies; it’s birthing projects that all have the common denominator of unleashing the power of tech to advance the president’s programs, whether that’s job creation, economic growth, improved outcomes in health care, education, public safety or energy.
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