By Translation, Plurals

I'm not sure whether the 'possessive + gerund' structure was preferred by English teachers, when native grammar was taught to the natives. I suspect that it was, if only because Fowler devotes so much space to it. But I would guess that most of those who produce written BrE for public consumption...

Hello Sextus 1) 'Turns out to be' implies more of a process than (I think) you want here. Perhaps 'become apparent' is the phrase you're after; but it's difficult to fit that in. What about a simple 'seems'? 2) You might leave out the 'first' in the first reason ('For it is a fact...'), then...

Hi Sunflower, Your letter is fine, with some subtle exceptions. But just be careful because "major" and "common" are often very similar. As I demonstrated, sometimes you can use the words interchangably. From my quick and uneducated reading of the following URL I tend to agree that...

Dear Mr. Micawber, I received yesterday the corections in the translation and was extremely happy with it. When I copied and paste your corrections and read it again, some sentences read more smooth then before. I happen to shift parts of sentences from left to richt and the other way arround....

The assignment was about the different views on marriage we can find in The importance of being earnest. This is the corrected version (done by me) but the original one was written by a student of mine who is at university studying English translation. I thought if I say "we find characters...

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. -...

~girding on my armour~ I'm coming to rescue my mother tongue from the evils of translation engines!! ~chuckle~ I've never liked those translation programs, and I see I have good reasons for it! "Hola a todos; mi español es muy pobre, sé lo que nnecesito escribir en mi propio idioma pero no puedo...

This is the problem many face when when the gender mix is unknown. In this instance, Dear Sirs,...etc would be perfectly acceptable. However, if your correspondence is addressed to a group of individuals where you know a female is included, then you would write: Dear Sir / Madam (no...

Two euros is correct, yes. My earlier claim was wrong. I can only assume the the European Commistion Translation Service (whoever they are) must have changed their mind on this one, or overruled the Secretariat-General (whoever they are) at some point. So in the singular, "euro" is the same in...

OK, I've done some research and got the definitive answer on the euro. This information comes from the European Commission Translation Service's English Style Guide. Guidelines on the use of the euro, issued via the Secretariat-General, state that the plurals of both 'euro' and 'cent' are to be...