By Conditionals, Translation

Colombo wrote:I'm trying to translate my CV into English, but I'm finding a lot of difficulties. Apart from the overall chronic style of the result, there are certain things that I find I don't know how to say. I'm copying a list here, in case someone can lend me a hand (for which I'd be...

Hey Cool Breeze Cool Breeze wrote:I was lucky to be born in a country where education is highly appreciated and I also had an excellent English teacher when I was just 12 years old.You are soooo lucky. I've always said that North Europeans knew English better. Unfortunately, here if you want to...

Do you know what this means? would have been valid this is crucial to any detailed explanation. It's unreal conditional. Now going back to your However ..... valid paragraph: In short, the contractual obligations remain in effect/valid, even if there are some small changes to the...

>I wish I could go with you. Perhaps you understand it in a translation with a conditional: I wish the possibility of (my) going with you would exist.

I think the standard conditional is described here: http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html Past time (see past unreal conditional at that page) If I had cared about my grade in this course, I would have studied harder. Present time (see present unreal...

Yes, it sounds reasonably natural. Some notes:Use a variety of sentence structures-- complex, compound-complex, etc-- rather than a series of short simple sentences.Commas go inside of the quotation marks for quotes; as do periods, if the quote is the entire sentence.Latter, not later'in charge...

Hello, rvw. I'd like to add just a few words. I remember reading in Gamut1991 roughly such an exciting passage: G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) had proposed a program for logic and developed ideas of a universal language, in which thought could be represented directly, without any of the ambiguities....

A person in a forum asked to translate several sentences into English. Here are two variants of translation; we argue and cannot decide which are correct. My translation: -=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1) I've just heard Anne arguing with a/the manager 2) After a computer programme has been written it should be...

Hello Paco, first I think Jim mentioned that part because I sometimes write back saying 'il mio maestro' - actually am not an italian though, I very much like the sound of it. I did studied. I am now rather embarrased with the fact that I gave him my profile incorrectly by saying something in...

Here's another way of looking at it, Jack. As you say in another place, native speakers use mixed conditionals all the time. In speech, for instance, speakers often change conditional types in mid sentence – not because they want to express a subtle distinction, but because speech is by its...