By Translation, Tenses

Hi Diddy, Here is the piece with errors corrected, and a couple of amendments made to make the style better. All in all it looked very good, there are a couple of expressions in which the correct preposition is not obvious, you just have to know these I'm afraid! One point is that King or Queen...

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />> > THE LOST CHRISTMAS EVE > > THE BEGINNING It was the night of Christmas Eve and somewhere on the other side of eternity (which is somewhere after today but before tomorrow) a tear of incredible sadness slowly welled up within the eye of a...

Hello, excuse me. It shouhd have been: My grammar book says PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE is usual with all verbs in negative sentences. I have written PP continuous which was an accident. I try to translate exactly what this book says (It´s a Czech book for language schools - Angličtina pro jazykové...

IAmWithName2 wrote: Hi all, Just when I thought I understood (almost) everything there is to know about the present perfect and the simple past I stumbled over a translation from Dutch I made --the problematic sentence is bold: ----- begin fragment ----- Seventeen-year-old Claire lives on...

Hi all, Just when I thought I understood (almost) everything there is to know about the present perfect and the simple past I stumbled over a translation from Dutch I made --the problematic sentence is bold: ----- begin fragment ----- Seventeen-year-old Claire lives on her own in a studio in...

Hi paco again. Thank you Very Much! As to Future tense in Old English I'd like to study later as it's not my long suit (not even my short suit). As to the description in d'une classe K={Kj} de signes en L si et seulement si les deux conditions suivantes sont simultanément...

Hello again Hela ...If ever you read my translation into English of the article from "Le Monde",...which mark would you give me?... I wouldn't get very many marks, if anyone were to mark my marking...But here are my (BrE-ish) comments instead! First I've given the original sentence; then your...

I know which book you're translating from! Please do not leave a space before your commas and periods. Ghosts *Hide (you use past tense in the narrative) from Jiang Sanmang Mr.Yao’an heard a story *from Mr. Run Sheng, his great grandfather. In Jing City?there was a man called Jiang...

Hello Guest, I've found a mistake again. (When I got your question it was about 4 a.m. in my country, so I answered kind of mechanically ...) Let me correct it. ?(3) = CHASE(?X?x(?y(DOG(y)?x=y)? ?X(x)), j) ... this translation is a completely mistake. It should be: ?(3) = ?x(?y(DOG(y)?x=y) ?...