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Questions about cooking in Canada/US...

JCDenton — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:26:04 GMT

Hi guys,

I just finished an translation of one episode of the cooking TV show from Canada called "Fresh" with Anna Olson...May I ask for help with some sentences from there...? In most of the cases I've just a problem with a synonym of english word in my native language....Ok, here we go...

1) Anna: "I'm feeding the fire fighters today and to suit their busy lifestyle I've made dishes that are fabulous, hot or cold."

- I have a problem here with the right meaning of the word suit. Please did she mean..."...and to satisfy their busy lifestyle...."????

- I've made dishes that are fabulous hot or cold = I've made dishes that are fabulous, whether you serve them hot or cold?????

2) Anna was cooking in that episode really great looking peach, oatmeal griddle cookies. However, I don't know how to say "griddle cookies" in my native language.....Please may I call it peach, oatmeal pancakes? Because griddle is a fryer designated for the pancakes making...

3) #2 was a snack, but as an entree, Anna made Salmon && Chickpea Toss.

Please what's the meaning of the word Toss in culinary? I checked some of my favourite dictionaries and not a word about Toss as an Noun....

4) Anna is having an interview with one the fireman in there.

Anna: So who does the cooking most? Are you the designated cook?

Fireman: At the hall? Yeah, they call me Jeff the chef, so that's my job.

Anna: You come by it honestly.(??????)

Fireman: Yeah, we have a lot of good cooks at the hall so we all work together. We got some that can't cook so they do the dishes...(big smile)... (Please what does this sentence have in common with the fact that he's an designated cook in there???)

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Best Regards

JCD

A Little Help with Capitals

angel_tristan0409 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:10 GMT

A Little Help with Capitals

This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.

Use capital letters in the following ways:

The first words of a sentence

When he tells a joke, he sometimes forgets the punch line.

The pronoun "I"

The last time I visited Atlanta was several years ago.

Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)

Worrill Fabrication Company

Golden Gate Bridge

Supreme Court

Livingston, Missouri

Atlantic Ocean

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Family relationships (when used as proper names)

I sent a thank-you note to Aunt Abigail, but not to my other aunts.

Here is a present I bought for Mother.

Did you buy a present for your mother?

The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books

God the Father

the Virgin Mary

the Bible

the Greek gods

Moses

Shiva

Buddha

Zeus

Exception: Do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god."

The word "polytheistic" means the worship of more than one god.

Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

She worked as the assistant to Mayor Hanolovi.

I was able to interview Miriam Moss, mayor of Littonville.

Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)

The Patels have moved to the Southwest.

Jim's house is two miles north of Otterbein.

The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)

Halloween

October

Friday

winter

spring

fall

Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title.

The Fall 1999 semester

The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages

Costa Rica

Spanish

French

English

The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote

Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)

One of Jerry's favorite books is The Catcher in the Rye.

Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

Green Bay Packers

African-Americans

Anti-Semitic

Democrats

Friends of the Wilderness

Chinese

Periods and events (but not century numbers)

Victorian Era

Great Depression

Constitutional Convention

sixteenth century

Trademarks

Pepsi

Honda

IBM

Microsoft Word

Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)

Freudian

NBC

pasteurize

french fries

italics

Re: Suggest + "not do" - verb pattern

CalifJim — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:34:30 GMT

For suggest as give advice:

I [suggest / advise] (that) he do something. (affirmative pattern)

I [suggest / advise] (that) he not do something. (negative pattern)

But suggest also means bring to mind, and this is the meaning in your example sentences, so the grammatical structures for 'advisory' suggest don't apply. Issues of availability cannot give advice! So all you need is a that clause or a noun -- without any of those subjunctives!

Issues of availability ... suggested that members of the scientific committee might not need to be interviewed.

Issues of availability ... suggested a course of action in which members of the scientific community would not need to be interviewed.

Issues of availability ... suggested a research methodology by which interviews with members of the scientific community could be avoided.

Re: Suggest + "not do" - verb pattern

YoungCalifornian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:33:12 GMT

Tanit
But I'm stuck with a sentence where "to do" is replaced by "not to do":

    a1) I suggest not doing X.                         (I reckon this is fine)
    a2) I suggest not to do X.                          (???)
    b1) I suggest [that] Y shouldn't do X.         (I reckon this is fine)
    b2) I suggest [that] Y [not do | don't] X.      (this sounds terribly bad!)

Your questions stem from the use of the mandative subjunctive, which arises in turn from the use of the verb "to suggest." However, you've complicated things by using the complicated predicate "to do X" in your sentences' subordinate clauses. I'm assuming that "Y" always represents a personal pronoun (or proper noun), but "X" could be either a demonstrative pronoun (or regular noun in certain cases) or a verb depending on your meaning.

a1) This construction is fine if "X" is a demonstrative pronoun, but incorrect if represents a verb.

a2) This construction is incorrect. If "X" is a demonstrative pronoun, the verb "to do" must be changed from the infinitive to the subjunctive and a personal pronoun added so that the sentence reads I suggest Y not do X. This makes the subordinate clause a content clause, which means that the word "that" could be added as you've done in example b2). The sentence will not work at all if "X" is a verb.

b1) While this construction is not grammatically incorrect, it can sound too passive when "suggest" and "should" are in close proximity. Anyway, that's assuming that "X" is once again a demonstrative pronoun. This construction will not work if "X" is a verb.

b2) It may not seem like it, but switching between "not do" or "don't" (i.e. "do not" ) dramatically changes this sentence. They cannot be used interchangably in this context. As I mentioned above, the "not do" construction works fine if "X" is a demonstrative pronoun. However, if "X" is a (subjunctive) verb then "do not" or "don't" (or does not/doesn't for singular third person pronouns) must be used.

I apologize if this sounds complicated, but it's a result of using an auxiliary verb in your example predicates. If you replace "to do X" with a simpler verb it would probably be clearer. Basically, your two options are to follow the verb "to suggest" with either a gerund or the subjunctive. Either way, the word "not" would precede the dependent verb should you choose to make it negative. Looking ahead, I've used the verb "to interview" in an example of each construction.

Gerund: I suggest (not) interviewing...
Subjunctive: I suggest (that) he (not) interview...

Here's the sentence I'm trying to write (it's for a research paper):

1. "Issues of availability, together with constraints on time and scope of the research, suggested not interviewing any member of the scientific committee."
2. "Issues of availability, together with constraints on time and scope of the research, suggested not to interview any member of the scientific committee."
3. "Issues of availability, together with constraints on time and scope of the research, suggested that no member of the scientific committee should be interviewed."

I'd go for no. 1 (no. 3 seems to carry a different meaning ... or am I wrong?), but I am not sure about that. What do you think?
I'm also trying (with little, if any, success) to work out the general pattern.

Both the first and third examples work. The first is the gerund construction, the third is the subjunctive construction. The second is incorrect. However, despite being technically correct, both the first and third examples still sound awkward. Ultimately, I think this is because it sounds strange for "issues" to suggest something directly. Typically they would suggest something to someone. For instance, I think that "Issues of availability... suggest not interviewing any member of the scientific committee to me" or "Issues of availability... suggest to me that no member of the scientific committee should be interviewed" both sound better.

celta pre-interview :(help me please

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:27:46 GMT

Hello. I need some help with celta preinterview task. II know the mistakes,
however, I have no idea how to explain them easily. I'm new
to all teachers' world so please help me :( I've got some ideas for the answers but the biggest problem for me is to explain to students so they understand. could anyone help me please:(Each of the exchanges below contains a mistake. In each case:
a) indicate what the mistake is
b) write in the correct version in the box
c) write, in simple terms, an explanation that the student would understand

1) "I'd like some informations about your courses".
"Certainly, here's our brochure".
informations is a mistake. it is an uncountable noun and plural itself so we don't add "s" to the plural form.
2) "What does your teacher look like?"
"He looks like tall".
looks like is a mistake. we say he is tall. (no idea how to explain that)
3) "What did you do last night?"
"Oh, I watched a very bored programme on television".
bored is a mistake. we say boring. we use the present participle (don't know again)
4) "Why didn't you answer the telephone?"
"Because I had a bath".
I was having a bath..should be.. becase we say the reason?

Imagine you are teaching a multilingual group of 12 adult learners at BEGINNER level.
a)What problems might your students have in (i) understanding,
(ii) pronouncing and (iii) using these items?

i) I've got a headache. (have got..possession?)
ii) comfortable (pronouncing table(as an object of a classroom)
iii) What's the matter?(matter=issue?)

Adjective

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:59:42 GMT

I am a french native speaker and I study translation (english to french). I have a text to translate and I have to clarify something about the use of the adjective in this "sentence":

... the first round of extensive physical examinations and lifestyle interviews that they would later..

My question is: Is the adjective extensive only referring to the physical examination or referring to both nouns ( syntagms) physical examination and lifestyle interviews ?

Let me know if you think my question is not clear enough.

Thanks to all !

Re: Which he isn't

Clive — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:29:10 GMT

Hi,

If Harrison isnt playing (which he isn't) I think Colts aren't gonna win.

Is which is a relative pronoun? Yes.
Which doesn't have to refer a particular thing,right? It has to refer to something, but it does not have to be a noun. eg it can be a clause.
If it has to, where does which refer? The phrase 'Harrison isn't playing'. Please note that this type of grammar in this sentence is quite lax and informal. Don't use it when you are writing a college essay or speaking in a job interview. Another example is that 'gonna' is said, bit is only spelled thus in informal writing.

Finally, can I write this with commas?Yes.

If Harrison isn't playing, which he isn't, I think the Colts aren't gonna win.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: I am looking forward to (meet / meeting)? you

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:16:41 GMT

I have a similar question but with a noun instead of a verb. Is this senctence correct:

"I am looking forward to the interview."

Re: Could you please, help me with my questions?

Grammar Geek — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:20:12 GMT

Hello Gabriel,

1) Vacation is a great time for (or to) people have some rest from their daily routine; You're right: for.

2) If I win a good amount of money, I'll buy a lot of cheap electronic devices or cheap electronics. (?); Electronic is an adjective, so with a noun it's okay.

3) The old lady called me for (or to ) an interview. (?); You're right: for.

4) Music relax (or relaxes) the mind and shake (or shakes) the body. (?) Music should take the third-person singular. relaxes and shakes.

5) Is there any mistake in the following ?

- Music helps me to relax in a difficult moment of my life.; Not wrong, but if you use simple present, then there is more than one moment, so I would say "in difficult moments in my life."

6) Should we say I hate hard (or heavy music)? hard rock or heavy metal music

Re: I am doing good/well

Clive — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:06:23 GMT

Hi,

Since 'doing' is dealing with a human sense - i.e., one's mental state, or one's physical state - then you could use the adjective 'good' to describe the verb doing. So if you are feeling happy, you could say "I am doing good"; and if you are recovering from surgery, you could say "I am well."

When you say 'I am well', 'well' is an adjective describing the pronoun 'I'. By definition, an adjective cannot describe a verb.

When you say 'I am doing well', 'well ' is an adverb that modifies the verb 'do'.

Thus, 'I am doing good' is considered substandard because you are using an adjective to modify a verb. You will hear some people say it, but I wouldn't recommend it. For example, don't say it in your job interview for a position where a good education is an important requirement.

Bet wishes, Clive