In Possessives^x, Translation^x

That lesson cost me almost a hundred dollars They first settled here almost 75 years ago or Almost 1000

Grammar Geek wrote:.... Just say "reading case histories" - don't try to make cases possessive. GG, thanks for your response again! You know what, I kept feeling discomfortable with these two sentences (translation) I wrote. Because the source language Chinese version "jie1 shou4 hui4...

Help me please. I'm an Assistant Language Teacher in a school in Japan, and a Japanese English teacher has run into a test-marking problem to which I'm not sure of the answer.A question involved looking at a sentence in Japanese and entering the correct word into the parentheses:That's one of the...

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. Gdansk artist or Gdansk's artist when I'm talking/writing about an artist from Gdańsk which one would be correct? Both are OK, but there are subtle differences in the meaning conveyed. Gdansk artist This is adjectival. It just means that the artist lives in...

Hello again, MrP (IF I may I call you MrP). I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing. You said: “...which implies that the subject of the <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause. However, the subject of the...

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 Paco Yes, #1 is fine; #2 isn't; #3 is a little strange (it reads like a literal translation). I wonder now though whether 'hate' is a good example. For instance, no one would object to: 1. We watched him cooking the dinner. 2. I noticed the blackbirds singing. 3. I smelt the food...

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...