Reader's Digest said:
Many of us think we have some hadicap taht's going to keep us from getting a job: we are too fat, or too old. We have a physical handicap, a criminal record, not enough education. We are a foreigner, we're too shy; we come from a different background.
I see. 8)
Notice the author uses "We" throughout the paragraph; It's stylistic: a matter of flow. Grammatically though, "We are a foreigner" should be "We are foreigners", but the author chooses not to use that structure, and for good reason: "We are foreigners" expresses "We" the readers as a group, but the author is trying to express "We" the readers as individuals (i.e., "We are a foreigner). In short, the author uses "We" for flow and "a foreigner" for meaning. Call it poetic license/licence. :wink:
blacknomi said:
We have a physical handicap, a criminal record, not enough education.
It doesn't make sense to me that we have A, B, not enough C.
(1)We have A.
(2)We have B.
(3)We have not enough C.
Without 'not', C would be positive:
We have a physical handicap

, we have a criminal record

, we have enough education

.
With 'not', C is negative:
We have a physical handicap

, we have a criminal record

, we do not have enough education

.
Note, since 'we' and 'do' and 'have' can be picked up from the context the author omits them (i.e., they are redundant elements).
All the best,
