wow, thats incorrect. although both are adj, 'near' isnt used in front of nouns except rarely. It can be used as an adj, 'her house is near' but in front of a noun 'nearby' is almost always a better choice. I, too, would

Athletics is a noun meaning the aggregate of athletic activities. Athletics carnival is probably mistranslated from the translation of athletics meet.

Hi, If it was my friend's birthday today, then she would be the birthday person, or the birthday girl. Can I say: She is the birthday star. ? "Birthday star" is a literal translation from Chinese. Someone purposed it as a synonym

Hi CJ, hi Yankee, Yankee, 18 years in Schwaben? Wow... I don't think I could do that ... Is there even a word for 'considering suicide', a noun? Literal translations... I don't judge translations for being literal, they should

Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The main issues that the work is dealing with are countability and uncountable nouns in the English and Slovak languages. The work is a comparative analysis of these two morphological

M. Blanchot considers the foreign text, not as the unchanging cultural monument in relation to which the translation must forever be an inadequate, ephemeral copy, but as a text in transit, "never stationary," ... consituting a powerful

Hello. I'm Marta, come from Poland. I'm working on a text in English and have encountered a few problems. These are mostly of a rather subtle nature but for several reasons it's important for me that the whole text sounds as

(Do you think I'll ever find out which came first, the verb or the verbal?) You may not find out which came first but you'll certainly learn their meanings here: ver·bal adj. 1. of or pertaining to words: verbal

Why in English the words "morning," "afternoon," and "evening" are all countable nouns, but not the word "dusk"? What if I really need to count it in doing translation?

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