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Hello Roro I feel it is a bit too difficult to discuss the grammar of our language comparatively with those of Indo-European ones. For example, "I like apples very much" is usually translated into "Boku wa ringo ga totemo suki desu". But strictly speaking "Boku wa ringo ga totemo suki desu" is...

Hello 4. You need to try this one all over again. 5. Needs a little work - with a large population and an underdeveloped economy...a series of effective policies...hard-struggling is not a good way to phrase this, struggle is a very negative word. 6. 'only stirred astonishment and gloom...

You can't make a direct translation in this way as in English, we do not use the negative to imply uncertainty. The word 'may' does this for you. 'You may swim in this pool' means they can if they want, certainly no one is going to push them in to force them to. To say that it is compulsory to...

BBC English says if you should… / if you happen to… Note that we use should in the if-clause in the first conditional if we want to suggest that something is very unlikely. We can use happen to in a similar way or even combine them: If you should / happen to change your mind about coming to...

Dear users of EnglishForums, I believe I’ve finally understood the English uses of the modal verb “used to”. Would you be so kind to read this summary and comment it? I’ve included my Spanish translation of the English sentences in order to help Spanish students (I wish!) and also to receive your...

Hi MrP, thanks for your answers. I have some more questions. 1) "Unperturbedness closely followed by chance he who suspended judgment". This is actually a translation of a Greek text. A translator renders it thus: "When they suspended judgment, tranquillity followed fortuistously". But this is...

Ah! A translation! And Russian. That explains a lot. Here's what I came up with. Telling lies to the young is wrong. Proving to them lies are true is wrong. Telling them that God’s in his heaven And all’s well with the world is wrong. young lies / lies wrong / wrong / wrong The...

Hello everybody, Yes, the issue is singular or plural as many questions have been posted in the past and so will be. I searched this sort of any previous question but whether or not I am a bad internet surfer I coudn't find what I am going to mention. Elemental but very ambiguous. -...

That's pretty colourful jargon. "Hot-button" has been around for awhile. This term describes an issue that is known to make many people immediately give a strong negative reaction. If the GOP campaigns along the lines of "under the Democrats, what you are going to see is a lot of "GAY...