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tense difference

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:30:43 GMT

Hi,

A few days back, I wrote something and post it in this forum for corrections. After a while, Mr. M corrected it, but I have one question. What is the difference between the two in terms of the tense change of the second sentence? Remind you that there is no change in the first sentence.

Mr. M's correction:

I remember Sue, who transferred to another school just two months before this graduation date. Had she stayed in our school , she would have been expecting to graduate in a month like me.

My orginal sentences:

I remember Sue, who transferred to another school just two months before this graduation date. Had she stayed in our school , she would be expecting to graduate in a month like me.

Sorry for not following up this question with the original thread posts.

Re: Life Is Stupid

Benu — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:03:24 GMT

LOL I share your points.

Sometimes I wonder why I, or anyone else, was given a life at all. People were born, then strive hard all their lives for a comfortable death. They work hard so that they can enjoy a little bit more before their time comes and thus have some sort of fulfillment feeling. Left aside the core instinct, they get married, have kids just because they don't want to die alone. So, the point of living is to choose a more favorable way to die. We're alive just because we can't die yet.

And the 'life-progress' itself is like a game. Like is a combination of business management and dice rolling. Each of us is given an amount of time to perform crazy things; and it totally depends on the ABOVE that the amount is more or less. Normally it is enough for some enjoyment here and there, but there are some bad-luck cases that someone runs out of his time too early and some ultra bad-luck cases that someone has to wonder "Am I ever gonna die at all??" We play games to enjoy. So the main difference between our life and other games is that we can't usually enjoy it, since we are not usually the ones who roll the dice although we're the main characters in our game.

Anonymous
In the greater perspective of things the more people living more comfortable and happy shortens earths best before by date anyway what with all the pollution, which nobody is ever really going to solve anyway.
If I had the choice i'd go live just after all the T Rexs were dead and convince all the cavemen to start human society differently, as long as they don't throw rocks and me anyways.
PEACE.

Well it comes to me that this planet would be an ultimately joyous place if human beings didn't exist at all. Besides, don't waste your time trying to convince the cavemen, they won't understand you anyways*.

*Even now you can still meet bunches of cavemen rambling on the street. And I'm sure they're pretty like their prehistoric friends no matter of some dozen thousand years apart.

Are theses sentences correct?

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Re: 2 passages

Clive — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:45:36 GMT

Hi,

I have two questions so far regarding two passages. These passages both seem to be written in a very oldfashioned style of English. Do you know the date they were written?

1. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education.

--Is a "street porter" someone who carries people's bags or someone in charge of the entrance to a building or someone else?It means someone you pay to carry stuff from one place to another. That's his job.

Today, in Western cities, we don't really have 'street porters'. We use couriers, moving companies, UPS.

2. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupations. The difference of talents comes then to be taken notice of, and widens by degrees, till at last the vanity of the philosopher is willing to acknowledge scarce any resemblance.

--I don't understand the part in bold. Could you make it clearer to me? It's very hard to follow the writer's thought. Possibly more context would help.

the vanity of the philosopher someone who is proud of their skills in thinking and umderstanding

is willing

to acknowledge scarce any resemblance. to admit that there is almost no resemblance between the two children, that they are almost completely different.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: need your correction

CalifJim — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:04:20 GMT

This is my guess of what you're trying to say.

I checked with Ada, and she said she is going to the plastic injection factory today to investigate why there's a color difference between the unit and USB cover. Therefore, the scheduled goal of June 19 is no longer reasonable. I will keep in touch with her for the latest updates.

Re: Kindly check these sentences

Creativeguru — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:45:35 GMT

Thanks a lot kindly explanation why till-date is incorrect. basically what is the difference between till-date and to-date?

Re: Tenses

Doll — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:54:33 GMT

My try:

Uses of phrase "found out":
(the city is going to raise taxes and the action of raising taxes hasn't iniitated.)
1) I found out that the city is going to/will/is planning to raise taxes.
I don't see much difference with this:
I found out that the city ~~would~~ will raise taxes. The choice of tenses here depends on the meaning you want to give us. If you mean that there is a more planning in this situation, "going to or planning to " can be used. But I prefer "will" with find out because "will" means something more immeadiate or something decided or learned at the time of speaking.

(It's news that my friend is going to get married and he hasn't married.)
2) I found out my friend is going to/will/is planning to get married.
I don't see much difference with this:
I found out my friend ~~would~~ will get married. Hmm, here you know that he is going to get married. You have an initial informationa bout this so planning to or going to will be more proper.

Use of word "said":
3) My friend said that the city will/ is going to raise taxes.
I see a difference with this and the sentence below seems to be OKbut not as good as the above sentence Why? Is that because raising taxes is still in a planning stage and has not been instituted?
My friend said that the city would raise taxes. I would say that this sentence is wrong. "said that, found out that" is a past tense in form but their meanings is relarted with present events so you shouldn't use a past tense if you are talking about a present event. The difference between will and going to is simply can be explanied as I told you before. If you want a detailed information, search them in the search box above. You will find threads discussing it.
4) My friend said the city will/is going to raise taxes after July 7th.
My friend said that the city would be raising taxes after the date of July 7th.?? -- how would you rewrite this with shifting-back the tense when a future date is involved.

Hmm, it is simple. Changing the tenses will help you. My friend said that the city was going to/would raise taxes after July 7th. (Reported speech) You report the news to your friend so there is nothing wrong with tense change.

Re: tense - why wrong?

CalifJim — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:48:07 GMT

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A job applicant using the sentence, "I like employers that (instead of who) take good care of their employees", is facing a risk of his/her application being turned down should his/her prospective employer consider such use (of 'that') as inappropriate; and the applicant will be left with no chance to defend himself/herself since normally no reason will be given for the rejection.

This claim is outrageously "over-the-top"!!! No employer in his right mind would reject a candidate on the basis of a single word. Employers are much more interested in whether the candidate can do the job. Word choice is not at issue in 99.9% of jobs typically available to job seekers. (The 0.1% represents jobs as editors and the like.) Barely a single employer in ten thousand is even aware of a difference between who and that in the context referenced -- and even those would have to have the issue specifically brought to their attention before they might notice that the prospective employee had used one or the other in the context of an interview.

Re: Is there a difference between a word for word translation and literal translation?

Philip — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:50:29 GMT

1. I'm not aware of a term for the difference between the two. Just use the two terms.

2. You might say 'liberal', 'free' or 'up-to-date/modern/vernacular'.

Re: difference between 'allow' and 'allow for'

Avangi — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:31:20 GMT

Hi Sebastian,

allow = permit allow for = accomodate / make provision for

Probably both would work in both of your examples.

allow / allow for connection = enable connection to be accomplished / performed

I'm having bad luck thinking of cases where both would not work.

The assembly dimensions fail to allow for expansion.

Mama don't allow no singin' around here.

To "allow for" is to plan ahead for some eventuality. "This board doesn't allow me to add more memory." "The board designer didn't allow for memory expansion."

Best wishes, - A.