Правильно ли следующее предложение? На сайте http://minichden.narod.ru/articles/delphi/008.htm я встетил такое предложение: Components - список объектов, которым компонент является владельцем (Owner). Мне кажется, что более правильно было б сказать: Components - список объектов, которых компонент является владельцем (Owner). Прав ли я или нет?

Is it correct not to use 'to' before an infinitive which is a complement in a sentence? While reading the book 'Head First Design Patterns', I came across this sentence on page 364: All she has to do to print the entire menu hierarchy - all the menus, and all the menu items - is call print() on the top level menu. Is it correct not to use 'to' before 'call print() on the top level menu'?

What does 'that doesn’t mean you might not' mean? While reading the book 'Head First Design Patterns', I came across the next sentences on page 244: So what’s a class adapter and why haven’t we told you about it? Because you need multiple inheritance to implement it, which isn’t possible in Java. But, that doesn’t mean you might not encounter a need for class adapters down the road when using your favorite multiple inheritance language! The last sentence sounds strange for me because I look at it as equivalent to 'But, that doesn’t mean it is possible that you won’t ever encounter...' (what implies 'you will definitely encounter' and looks as a groundless statement), while the other sentence 'But, that doesn’t mean you won’t ever encounter...' would be apt here. Does it mean I haven't made sense of the last sentence? Or is there some logical mistake?

Is the phrase 'it decorate' correct here? While reading the book 'Head First Design Patterns', I came across this sentence on page 91: The ConcreteDecorator has an instance variable for the thing it decorate (the Component the Decorator wraps). Is there a typo, or is the phrase 'it decorate' (instead of 'it decorates') grammatically correct here?

A word needed I need a title for the table's column that contains for every row the total amount (of gas) coming into the gas grid appropriate to that row. Every amount is the sum of gas production, gas imported from outside, gas from local gas storages etc. We've already come up with the title 'Consumption' for another column containing amounts (of gas) consumed by the gas grids. What word (or couple of words) fits the bill best?

Getting Shafted, Ukrainian style! Episode 2 Two months ago my mother and I went to a local shop to choose a replacement for our 37-year-old front door. The sales clerk helped my mother with choosing the colour and pattern for the surface and answered my questions about their doors' safety. I asked for the box with the locks to be unseal in front of us when the door are installed, and he agreed. A few days ago the new door has been mounted. When I saw it yesterday after arriving in my hometown, at first I was amazed. But as I shut it, I noticed that something was wrong: I could open it poking with my finger, without need to turn the handle. To crown it all, I found out that the fitter didn't unseal the locks in front of my mother. It's worth to mention that my landlord in another city has been burgled twice in the last 10 years, after she had bought a flat in the city. My mother and I went to the shop, where I discovered that my mother signed a document stating all was ok. So I couldn't demand anything. Hopefully, the clerk promised to send to us their worker who would fix the problem with shutting the door. What makes me worried it that more expensive of our locks, manufactured by Kale, goes with either 3 or 5 keys, but my mother was given 4 keys. I am going to replace both lock with those I will be able to find sealed.

Screwing customers. Ukrainian way. Episode 1 Yesterday I underwent a treatment typical for Ukrainian service industry. I need internet connection at home, and mobile internet seems a good choice since I spend weekends in my hometown and evenings during working week in the city where I work. I order megabytes in bulk from my mobile phone operator. Yesterday my internet balance was low, so I decided to top it up. I sent a USSD command, and before long an sms informing me about successful replenishment arrived. I carried on surfing but suddenly the internet broke down. I checked my balance. All money vanished into thin air. I call up the support and was informed that some information hadn't been updated on their side causing charging my internet activity at high price. The call-centre operator told me that if I had disconnected from the internet and then connected again, it wouldn't have happened. He offered me to have left certain amount of these megabytes in the next 30 days, then call the support again, after which I would have my money rebated. So, now I just have to find other internet connection to use at home for the next month. He informed me that the requirement to have a service (like 'internet') turned off during the next ordering that service was prescribed in the brochure accompanying my sim card. I got hold of the leaflet today, searched for that advisory but didn't find it. I called them again and heard that it might not appear in all versions of the brochure. What would you do in my place? How typical is this kind of treatment customers in your country?

Position of 'not even' in a sentence Doing tests from 'R. Murphy. English Grammar in Use. 4th Ed.', I found these correct answers: 112.2.6 I can't even remember her name. 112.2.8 He didn't even tell his wife (where he was going). 112.2.9 I don't even know the people next door. My versions were: 112.2.6 I can't remember even her name. 112.2.8 He didn't tell even his wife (where he was going). 112.2.9 I don't know even the people next door. It's because I thought the words order in English was the same as the most natural words order of the translations into Ukrainian and Russian: 112.2.6 Я не могу вспомнить даже её имени.(RU) & Я не можу згадати навіть її імені.(UA) 112.2.8 Он не сказал даже своей жене.(RU) & Він не сказав навіть своїй дружині.(UA) 112.2.9 Я не знаю даже (своих) соседей.(RU) & Я не знаю навіть (своїх) сусідів.(UA) Could you explain me the rule please?

The phrase 'heavy weather of it' Doing tests in a book 'Rawdon Wyatt. Check Your English Vocabulary for FCE+. Second Edition', at page 89 I came across a phrase whose meaning I couldn't find in my dictionaries. The book says that the phrase 'heavy weather of it' means the same as 'it unnecessarily difficult and complicated' in the sentence 'We could ask him to sort out the invoices, but he'll make it unnecessarily difficult and complicated.' Have you ever encountered this phrase?